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AMHERST COLLEGE. 
CLASS OF 1888. 
CLASS RECORD, 1888-1893. 



Published by the Class, 
1893. 



iHLiNG Bros. & Everard, 
Printers, 
Kalamazoo, 
Michigan. 



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PREFACE. 



"If it be true that good wine needs no bush," it is 
also true that the record of so good a class as '88 needs 
no preface. There would be none if it was felt that the 
record was complete. So far as it is correct it is good, of 
course, but while care and accuracy have been sought, 
only one who has attempted to gather information from 
a hundred fellows, at long range, can appreciate the 
difficulties that prevent one's finding precision in statistics. 

The publication of the poems and orations of Class 
Day is in accordance with Ihe desire expressed at the 
triennial reunion. Perhaps they have lost the value with 
which our fancy then coloured them, but at least they 
serve as pegs for delightful reminiscence. As the last 
utterance of the class in its prophetic stage they well pre- 
cede the Book of Chronicles. 

The thanks of the class are due to Rev. F. L. Garfield, 
upon whom fell the burdensome task of collecting the 
letters from the members. They have been used with 
only so little change as space and the requirements of a 
general plan made necessary. The compiler would also 
acknowledge here his obligation to many classmates who 
have kindly helped him to secure information concerning 
derelicts and non-graduates. It has been impossible to 
thank them individually. 

S. O. HARTWELL. 

Kalamazoo, Mich., Sept. 1, 1893. 



CLASS OF EIGHTY-EIGHT. 

William M. Prest, Boston, Mass., President. 

Shattuck O. Hartwell, Kalamazoo, Mich., Sec'y. and Treas. 



GRADUATES. 

Herman Vandenburgh Ames, M. A., 1890, Ph. D., 1891, (Harv.) 

Michigan University, Ann Arbor, Mich. 
William Henry Harrison Andrews, Scotland, Mass. 
Leonard Foster Apthorp, Norfolk House, Roxbury, Mass. 
Harmon Austin, Jr., 207 Mahoning Ave., Warren, Ohio. 
Asa George Baker, 6 Cornell St., Springfield, Mass. 
Albert Sprague Bard, LL. B., A. M., (Harv.) 1892, 70 W. 51st St., 

New York City. 
Ralph Wilbur Bartlett, LL. B., (Bos. Univ.) 1892, Exchange Build- 
ing, Boston, Mass. 
Clarence Wyatt Bispham B. D., (Gen'l Theol. Sem.), A. M., 

(Amherst) 1891, 1732 K St., Washington, D. C. 
Charles Lincoln Bliss, M. D., (N. Y. U.), A. M., (Amherst) 1891, 

Beirut, Syria, via London. 
John Summerfield Brayton, Jr , LL. B., (Harv.) 1891, Fall River, 

Mass. 
William Lewis Brewster, LL. B., (Colum.) 1891, Worcester Block, 

Portland, Oregon. 
Charles Albert Breck, Andover Theol. Sem., Andover, Mass. 
*Samuel Cony Brooks. 

Walter Ellingwood Bun ten, Sinclairville, N. Y. 
Irving Arthur Burnap, B D., (Hartf.) 1892, Monterey, Mass. 
Fred Leslie Chapman, B. D., (McCormick), A. M., (Amherst) 1891, 

1 1 17 Woman's Temple, Chicago, 111. 
William Bradford Child, care Macmillan & Co., 66 Fifth Ave., New 

York City. 
Sidney Avery Clark, M. D., (Harv.), A. M., (Amherst) 1891, 124 

Main St., Northampton, Mass. 
William Paine Clarke, B. D., (Hartf.) 1891, Samokove, Bulgaria. 



Zelotes Wood Coombs, 32 Richards St., Worcester, Mass. 

George Hiram Corey, 128 Greene Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. 

George Cornwell, B. D., (Union) 1891, Chefoo, Shantung Province, 

China. 
James Romeyn Danf or th, Jr., B. D., (Yale), A. M., (Amherst) 1891, 

Mystic, Conn. 
William Elliott Davidson, Neligh, Neb. 
Arthur Vining Davis, 116 Water St., Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Horace William Dickerman, 270 Wabash Ave., Chicago. 
Charles Henry Edwards, Amherst, Mass. 
James Ewing, M. D., (Coll. P. & S.) 1891, A. M., (Amherst) 1892, 

Roosevelt Hospital, New York City. 
James Alexander Fairley, box 114, Peoria, 111. 
Edward Franklin Gage, M. D., (Harv.), A. M., (Amherst) 1893, 

Perkins St., Winthrop Beach, Mass. 
Frank Lewis Garfield, B. D., (Yale) 1892, Feeding Hills, Mass. 
Lincoln Baker Goodrich, B. D., (Yale) 1893, Bound Brook, N. J. 
William David Goodwin, 120 Elizabeth St., Pittsfield, Mass. 
William Bates Greenough, LL. B., (U. of S. C.) 1890, A. M., 

(Amherst) 1891, 61 Westminister St., Providence, R. I. 
Shattuck Osgood Hartwell, 506 So. Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
Robert Worthington Hastings, M. D., A. M., (Harv.) 1893, City 

Hospital, Boston, Mass. 
Arthur Marston Heard, Arkansas City, Kas. 
Eleazer Osborn Hopkins, So. Hadley, Mass. 
Augustus Seymour Houghton, 265 Broadway, New York City. 
Clarence Sherrill Houghton, 265 Broadway, New York City. 
Ellery Channing Huntington, University of Nashville, Nashville, 

Tenn 
Frederic Smith Hyde, 700 Park Ave. , New York City. 
George Merriam Hyde, B. D., (Yale) 1891, A. M., (Amherst) 1892, 

Hampshire Arms, Minneapolis, Minn. 
Albert Henry Jackson, 24 W. Seneca St., Buffalo, N. Y. 
Fred Bryce Jewett, M. D., (Harv.) 1891, 190 W. Springfield St., 

Boston, Mass. 
Lucius Ethan Judson, Jr., LL. B., (Colum.) 1891, 310 Chamber of 

Commerce Building, Duluth, Minn. 
David Lyman Kebbe, B. D., (Yale), A. M., (Amherst) 1891, South- 
wick, Mass. 
Wallace Minot Leonard, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 

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Louis Watson McLennan, Afton, Iowa. 

Edward Lester Marsh, B. D., (Yale) 1891, Yarmouth, Mass. 

William Dwight Marsh, Amherst, Mass. 

Charles Ward Marshall, Holliston, Mass. 

John Hamilton Miller, 626 Greenup St., Covington, Ky. 

Warren Joseph Moulton, B. D., (Yale), A. M., (Amherst) 1893, Yale 

Divinity School, New Haven, Conn. 
William Bradbury Noyes, M. D , (Coll. P. and S.) 1891, Montclair, 

N. J. 
John Elliott Oldham, 70 State St., Boston, Mass. 
Arthur Decatur Osborne, 123 Washington Ave., Chelsea, Mass. 
Marion Maynard Palmer, Delhi, New York. 
*Allen Woodbury Parsons. 
William Foster Peirce, A. M., (Amherst) 1892, Kenyon College, 

Gambler, Ohio. 
Willson Hamilton Perine, American Bank Building, Kansas City, Mo. 
Paul Chrysostom Phillips, 222 Bowery, New York City. 
Arthur Henry Pierce, A. M., (Harv.) 1892, 5 Felton St., Cambridge, 

Mass. 
William Morton Prest, A. M., (Amherst) 1891, LL. B., (Bos. Univ.) 

1892, 62 Devonshire St., Boston, Mass. 
Frank Ellsworth Ramsdell, B. D., (Andover) i8gi, Gardner, Mass. 
Leonard Burbank Richards, B. D., (Phil. Epis. Sem.) 1891, Totten- 

ville, Staten Island, N. Y. 
James Gilbert Riggs, A. M., (Amherst) 1893, Watertown, N. Y. 
Albert Bradford Ripley, 612 Fifth Ave., New York City. 
John Belcher Rogers, College Park, Cal. 
Robert Harvey Sessions, 1616 Arapahoe St., Denver, Colo. 
George Newton Seymour, Elgin, Neb. 

Clifton Lucien Sherman, "Hartford Courant," Hartford, Conn. 
Walter Fisher Skeele, 228 Ernest and Cranmer Building, Denver, 

Colo. 
John Edwin Smith, 10 Ashland St., Worcester, Mass. 
Willard Payson Smith, LL. B., (Colum.) 1891, no Franklin St., 

Buffalo, N. Y. 
Arthur French Stearns, 747 Equitable Building, Denver, Colo. 
George Palmer Steele, Painesville, Ohio. 
Charles Sullivan, Room 505, Ashland Block, Chicago, 111. 
George Sanborn Tenney, 2 W. 56th St., New York City. 
Garret William Thompson, A. M., (Amherst) 1891, 1931 Chestnut 
♦Deceased. 



St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Edward Breck Vaill, Ferguson Block, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
Clyde Weber Votaw, B. D., (Yale) 1891, A. M., (Amherst) 1892, 391 

55th St., Chicago, 111. 
Edward Hardenbergh Waldo, M. E., (Cornell) 1890, 24 West St., New 

York City. 
Samuel Dexter Warriner, B. S., E. M., (Lehigh) 1890, Lehigh 

Valley Coal Co., Wilkesbarre, Pa. 
Elbridge Cutler Whiting, B. D., (Yale) 1891, 3310 Chicago Ave., 

Minneapolis, Minn. 
Charles Barrows Wilbar, 78 Cohannet St., Taunton, Mass. 
Henry Lawrence Wilkinson, care Harvey Fisk & Sons, 28 Nassau St., 

New York City. 
Herbert Pekin Woodin, B. D., (Yale) 1893, Curtisville, Mass. 
John Button Wright, 904 Lexington Ave., New York City. 

SPECIAL STUDENTS. 

Harold H. Jacobs, 603 So. High St., Akron, Ohio. 

Charles Beebe Raymond, care Goodrich Hard Rubber Co., Akron, O. 

Wallace Rollin Montague, 208 So. Front St., La Crosse, Wis. 

NON-GRADUATES. 

Addison Allen, LL. B., (Colum.) 1889, Mills Building, New York 

City. 
Leonard Woolsey Bacon, Jr. 

John Noble Blair, Mich. Univ. '88, 102 Broadway, New York City. 
Charles Crombie Bruce, A. C. '75, B. D., (Andover) 1878, Somer- 

ville, Mass. 
George Moseley Brockway, Lyme, Conn. 
Ernest Goodell Carleton, A. C. '89, M. D., (Coll. P. and 8.) 1892, 

Gouverneur Hospital, New York City. 
James Lee Doolittle, Ballston, New York. 
Wm. Esty, A. C. '89, A. M., (Amherst) 1893, Amherst, Mass. 
Henry Seth Fish, care Cushing, Olmsted & Snow, 74 Summer St., 

Boston, Mass. 
Homer Gard, "The Democrat," Hamilton, Ohio. 
Edwin Putnam Gleason, Maynard, Mass. 

Albert Payson Goodwin, 354 Washington Boulevard, Chicago, 111. 
Harold Russell Griffith, Yale '88, 32 Nassau St., New York City. 
John Haynes, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, Md. 
Arthur Mitchell Little, Yale '89, B. D., (Yale) 1891, TakomaPark, D. C. 
George Arthur Merritt, Amherst, Mass. 



George Henry Newman, Colfax, Wash. 

Charles Benjamin Niblock, Chicago, 111. 

Frederic Holmes Paine, Yale '88, High School, New Haven, Conn. 

Albert Hale Plumb, Jr., A. C. '91, 15 Oakley Road, London, N. 

*Pierrepont Isham Prentice. 

George Harris Rogers, A. C. '90, Holbrook, Mass. 

Arthur Byron Russell. 

Charles T. Sempers. 

Harry Elmer Small, A. C. '90, B. D,, (Yale) 1893, No. Guilford, 

Conn. 
Malcolm Joseph Sullivan. 
Albert Duff Tillery. 
Porter Tracy, New Orleans, La. 
Franke Abijah Warfield. 

William Franklin White, B. D., (Hartf.) 1890, Trumbull, Conn 
""Deceased. 



CLASS OFFICERS— For the Course. 



FRESHMAN YEAR. 



L. B. Goodrich, 

F. E. Ramsdell, 

F. L. Garfield, - 

L. E. Judson, 

E. C. Whiting, - 

W. M. Prest, 

E. C. Huntington, 



SOPHOMORE YEAR. 



L. B. Goodrich, 
G. P. Steele, 
F. L. Garfield, 
H. L. Wilkinson, 
J. H. Miller, 
W. M. Prest, - 

E. C. Huntington, 

F. L. Chapman, 



L. B. Goodrich, 
G. P. Steele, 
F. L. Garfield, 
H. L. Wilkinson, 
Porter Tracy, 
W. M. Prest, 
E C. Hutington, 



L. B. Goodrich, 
G. S. Tenney, 

F. L. Garfield, - 
H. L. Wilkinson; 
Charles Sullivan, 
S. O. Hartwell, 

J. H. Miller, 
A. S. Bard, 
S. D. Warriner, 
P. C. Phillips, 
A. V. Davis, 

G. N. Seymour, 
W. E. Bunten, - 
L. E. Judson, 

F. S. Hyde, 
W. M. Prest. 
E. C. Huntington, 
H. H. Jacobs, 



JUNIOR YEAR. 



SENIOR CLASS. 



President 

Vice-President 

Secretary 

Treasurer 

Historian 

- Gym. Capt 

Vice-Gym. Capt 



President. 

Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

Treasurer. 

Historian. 

Gym. Capt. 

Vice-Gym. Capt. 

Toast Master. 



President. 

Vice-President. 

Secretary. 

Treasurer. 

Historian. 

Gym. Capt. 

Vice-Gym. Capt. 



President. 

Vice-President. 

- Secretary. 

Treasurer. 

- Class Orator. 

- Class Poet. 

- Grove Orator. 

Grove Poet. 

Ivy Orator. 

Ivy Poet. 

Toast Master. 

Prophet. 

Prophet on Prophet. 

Historian. 

Choragus. 

Marshal. 

Gym. Capt. 

Vice-Gym. Capt. 



CLASS DAY PARTS. 



IVY ORATION. 

PRACTICAL IDEAL-WORSHIP. 

S. D. WARRINER. 

The ideal faculty is the gift of spiritual discern- 
ment. It is the ability to detect hidden truths and 
possibilities, and to convert them, when practically 
applied, into the experiences of actual life. The inspira- 
tion of all true ambition, progress, and reform, to it is 
due whatever tends to exalt life above the level of a dull, 
conventional common-place. 

That a person cannot transcend his ideals is an 
undoubted philosophical truth, for no culture and 
improvement can come by chance nor by any so-called 
natural development. Like can only produce its like. 
A desert cannot naturally evolve a cultured field, nor 
chaos a beautiful world. There must be in every case, first, 
an ideal conception — a design, an aspiration, an effort 
to realize it, or there can be no creation, no actual 
experience of increased progress, truth or beauty. Such 
a conception developed into a reality of life is what we 
may call practical ideal-worship. Except in the develop- 
ment of a lofty ideal, there can be no real success in 
human life. It must have a mark set before, to the 
attainment of which it is ever pressing forward. It must 
have a theory of success, the truth and reality of which 
it seeks to prove and illustrate in its own example and 
experience. Otherwise, it is merely material and 
sensuous. Except a person's ideals be higher than the 
common and actual, his view of life is narrowed and 
limited within the horizon of material interests. The 

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reformer is necessarily an idealist, not, however, in 
the exclusion and neglect of actual necessities, but in 
the culture and development of higher aspirations and 
sympathies. 

What is true of the individual is true also of the 
nation. It must have an ideal conception of its mission 
and destiny, or it can never attain greatness and stability. 
Its progress continues only so long as its life is inspired 
with a higher ideal of culture and freedom than has yet 
been realized. The profound philosophy and exquisite 
art of ancient Athens, as personified in its ideal concep- 
tion of Athenae, were developed through her inspiration. 
What its people deemed she was, they sought themselves 
to become; what she loved they cultured and cherished, 
and this practical ideal-worship awakened the aspira- 
tions, and enkindled the enthusiasm and devotion that 
gave to their otherwise insignificant city its imperishable 
renown. So, too, since her day, other nations one by one 
have come forward to contribute their quotas to the 
world's culture, and as their ideals have been, so have 
been their achievements. 

The ideal of our own nation represents a limitless 
possibility of personal culture and development. Yet 
we have to-day reached a crisis in our history, in which 
it may well be questioned whether the ideals of the past, 
which have hitherto inspired our efforts, are the ideals of 
the future, and are such as to insure our continued 
prosperity. Face to face with poverty and distress the 
early settler worked out the social problems of life. In 
his struggle for material necessities he still kept in view 
his spiritual ideals. But to-day these are in a great 
measure forgotten, in an all-absorbing devotion to 
material interests and comforts. Business and technics 
have permeated every department of thought. Restless 
enterprise, improved methods, and eager competition 

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mark an era of vigorous industrial growth. But has 
American character developed equally with American 
business culture? What are the practical ideals of the 
day by which we may forecast our future ? We find 
every thought and action weighed in the balance of 
utility, our tastes and habits, education, even religion, 
formed in the mould of materialism. The world over, 
"Yankee" and "Yankeeism" typify American character. 
Asa Siamese prince and philosopher has said, "Amer- 
ica has failed in the perception of real wisdom and the 
discernment of what constitutes the highest civilization." 

To an age which can appreciate nothing but from 
its so-called practical standpoint, poetry and the pro- 
ducts of the imagination appeal in vain. Philosophy is 
well-nigh forgotten. Literature, music and art are 
devoid of originality, and illustrate only a frivolous fancy, 
a gross and revolting realism. Religion is fast becoming 
an elaborate and sensational ritualism. Science is sup- 
planting Christianity, and a conservative scepticism 
sneers at the ideals of lofty enthusiasm and faith as mere 
superstition or blind credulity. 

When we behold in public life "instead of character, 
a studied exclusion of character; in every legislative 
measure passed the results of lobbying and fraud; nar- 
row and jealous partisanship without independence or 
individual integrity; office a means only of pecuniary 
profit; business a wild and reckless dissipation," we may 
not wonder that by the light of history are revealed disease 
and decay in our political and social life. Surely we 
have cause for evil forbodings when the national ideals of 
liberty and culture, of simplicity and economy are for- 
gotten, when the highest success is measured in dollars, 
when social and religious freedom has no higher signifi- 
cance than unbridled license, and in pursuit of some 
selfish aim, the instincts and obligations of duty and 
honor, nay, even friendship and humanity, are stifled. 

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It was no idle saying of Emerson that we, as 
Americans, best represent the hope of the future. Dis- 
satisfaction with the shallowness of past and present 
culture is giving broader impulses to modern thought 
and action. In the growing desire for temperance, in 
the earnest desire for reform, in the spread of Christian 
missions, we see a response to a spirit higher than that 
of material interest. Yet these higher privileges incur 
higher duties. If in America is presented the world's 
greatest opportunity, there is imposed upon every indi- 
vidual the highest personal responsibility. A high 
standard of popular culture, a spirit of practical ideal- 
worship, identified with its political and social life, are 
essential to its greatness and stability. But, if we have 
these lofty conceptions associated with the rights and 
privileges we enjoy, we are also subject to a correspond- 
ing danger of seeking to satisfy these ideals in the petty 
materialism of every-day life. The outcome of a cultured 
imagination, the product of the loftiest type of religious 
faith, can such ideals be an active force when we sink 
imagination and culture in a blind devotion to trade, and 
seek to supplant religion with sanctimony and cant? 

The Ideal carried into practical life is what we need 
to-day; not the conception of merely fanciful and impos- 
sible things, but the prophet's eye to discern the pos- 
sibilities of human nature, and the spirit and purpose to 
realize them in our religious, political and social life. 
We need a finer culture, stronger and purer inspirations, 
awakened sympathies with higher truths, and a greater 
enthusiasm and devotion in their attainment. As a great 
sculptor catches a fleeting day-dream of heavenly beauty 
and imprisons it in stone, so may our loftiest ideals 
of social and personal culture become incarnate in visible 
forms and crystallize into the practical realities and ex- 
periences of a perfect national life. 

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IVY ODE. 

James Alexander Fairley. 
Air — "Integer Vitae." 



Strong, calm, enduring, constant revelation, 
Bearing aloft its heaven-born inspiratioD, 
Emblem of strength and noble aspiration 
The church serenely stands. 

Close clinging to its walls for safe protection, 
The timid ivy follows their direction. 
Finds there a shelter of its own selection, 
A refuge from the storm. 

Brothers are we, close-bound by one emotion, 
Clinging to Amherst with a fond devotion. 
Strong may she stand amid the world's commotion, 
Honored by Eighty-eight. 



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CLASS ORATION. 

THE PROBLEM PAST AND PRESENT. 

CHARLES SULLIVAN. 

It is a historical fact that in every form of society 
the instrumentalities for human development are acquired 
first by the few ; and then on the part of the race there 
begins a ceaseless struggle to turn the special blessings 
of the few into the common blessings of all. From the 
earliest time an oligarchy has had almost exclusive 
possession of the means of social and political progress. 
At first the man of martial prowess had at will the 
service of his fellows. To the military chieftain the world 
was tributary, for his thralls watched his flocks and 
herds upon the hills ; his serfs tilled his broad domain 
and countless minions ministered to his minutest wants, 
while his retinue of warriors fought and died upon the 
battle field to bring him power and glory. To his 
castle came the singers, poets and philosophers of the 
time, making of it in comparative language a center of 
social and intellectual culture. But to the bondman of 
the soil all this was unknown. He knew nothing of the 
luxury of the great, or if he had heard of it he was 
taught to believe that it was not for him. He was born 
to serve; the rich man lived to rule. This belief was so 
ingrained in the world's thinking that the powerful 
minority claimed the obedience and service of the 
ignorant and degraded majority as their born right, and 
as the result of generations of slavery, the peasantry 
seemed convinced that they were, in fact, an inferior 
order of beings. 

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But though the mass of mankind was thus bound in 
seemingly hopeless servitude to the few, yet there was still 
abroad among the common people a longing instinctive, 
though unexpressed, for greater freedom of thought and 
action, and for a larger appropriation of the instruments 
for human progress, the possession of which made the 
difference between the lord and his vassal, and the use 
of which always differentiates the man of civilized life 
from the savage. This longing was but the incipient 
consciousness of the real goal of history. Ask the helot 
upon the plains of Greece, the bondman of the Middle 
Ages and the proletarian of modern times for the highest 
prize within the reach of his ambition, and what, think 
you, would be the response ? 

To be chieftain of the principality, to be lord of the 
castle, to be landlord, capitalist, or man of education. 
These answers are identical, and they are correct. 
They are the legitimate expression of the profoundest 
need of man — the need of power. Viewing the world's 
past from this distance we must say that the gratification 
of this need has been the ever present problem in the 
historical development of the human race. The wish of 
the Grecian helot and the feudal serf which the laws of 
their time forbade them to express on pain of death, but 
which the modern laborer in the name of justice and 
intelligence boldly demands his right to gratify, when 
interpreted in the light of to-day is : How may the 
conditions of human life be so changed that the cry of 
aspiration, heard alike at the forge and plough, in the 
coal mine and peasant's hovel, in the pulpit and on the 
bench, in the school and palace, may not pass unheeded 
in the case of the meanest bondman any more than 
in that of the king ? How may the blessings of political 
education, of civil liberty, of commerce and invention, 
become the common property of all men ? This must 

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be regarded as the perpetual human problem. The 
older civilization failed to furnish the conditions for its 
solution. Condemnation came upon despotism with its 
personal slavery and feudalism with its industrial 
serfdom because as social systems they necessitated the 
subjection of the mass of mankind to the selfish 
aggrandizement of the few and thus rendered unsolvable 
the human problem. And its solution became a possi- 
bility only when the final knell of feudalism and 
oligarchic despotism was rung in the French Revolution. 
It was then that kings and princes were finally 
taught that power is no sinecure, and as soon as 
governments thoroughly learned this lesson the era 
of modern political and social development began. 

And what has modern civilization contributed 
toward the realization of the goal of human history? 
The political sovereignty of each, and the social equality 
of all before the law we have made established facts. 
We have boldly proclaimed the inalienable right of every 
man to life, liberty and the pursuit of his well-being. 
We have tried to make the common man feel his dignity 
and appreciate the possibilities of his life. We have 
tried to create a public sentiment which would force 
every man not only to acquire the elements of an 
education, but also to fit himself for companionship with 
kings, priests, poets, and philosophers. And that this 
may be done we have established free schools and free 
institutions where the son of the meanest peasant may 
appropriate the treasures of science, literature and 
philosophy. We have also changed the basis of the 
world's industries. Selfishness has given way to self- 
interest. Industrial activity to-day is not inspired by the 
exclusive purpose of satisf3dng the needs of a favored 
class but the whole social body. Mills are built, railways 
constructed, and the various schemes of business and 



invention are carried on to bring a comfortable existence 
and the chance of material and social improvement 
within the reach of the lowest citizen. The spirit of 
democracy which seems to have taken up its permanent 
abode on the earth, aided by the railway, telegraph and 
telephone, has banded mankind together in one common 
interest, so that a wrong to the most contemptible 
citizen makes the civilized world demand redress. But 
notwithstanding the fact that even thus far modern 
civilization has more than realized the wish of the 
ancient serf, and has crowned every man with a political 
power, and an opportunity for the culture of mind and 
manners far surpassing that possessed by the ancient 
kings, still, paradoxical as it may seem, the discontent of 
the lower classes never was so furious as to-day. And 
why? Because without apparently just reason their 
normal needs outrun their means of gratifying them. 
By our political theories, by our public press, by our 
system of education, in brief by the general diffusion 
of the spirit of social and mental culture, we have 
inspired the modern laborer with a desire for a larger 
share in the material benefits of an advancing civiliza- 
tion, but we have failed to furnish him an opportunity 
of succeeding under our industrial system. And, 
consequently, as the onward march of civilization 
overthrew slavery and serfdom, because as social 
systems they conflicted with the realization of the 
highest developments of the race, so human progress in 
our day has reached the point where our industrial 
system is brought to trial on a similar charge. This is 
the social problem, and inasmuch as it is the passing 
phase of the ever present human problem — the solution 
of which would be the legitimate gratification of the 
rational needs of all mankind — it becomes the vital 
question of to-day. 



Its peaceable settlement, gentlemen, lies with the 
rich and educated class. They are the natural leaders in 
social progress to-day, for they inherit in a more or less 
modified form the social powers of the feudal kings. 
But the fact that conservatism finds in education and 
wealth its natural allies, seems an almost insurmount- 
able barrier to progress. Why was the French 
Revolution so bloody? Simply because a nobility once 
established to lead the people along the pathway of 
national greatness, but subsequently degenerating into 
a set of social vampires sucking their existence out 
of the life blood of the toiling poor, nevertheless still 
tenaciously clung to their special privileges on the mere 
basis of custom. Thus well supplied with the luxuries 
as well as the necessaries of life, and fearful that a 
change may be for the worse, the rich and intelligent 
class come to regard the established order as sacred and 
inviolable. 

And consequently in their opinion the most 
damaging criticism that can be passed on any proposed 
social reform is that of impracticability. However 
necessary as an act of justice the proposed policy may 
be, still if in conflict with existing institutions it must be 
abandoned and its friends denounced as public enemies. 
The most common and effective argument against the 
abolitionists was that the accomplishment of their 
purpose would of necessity be the radical destruction of 
an established industrial and social system. But did 
such reasoning avail against them? In this age 
institutions, social, political and religious, must stand or 
fall on their merits, and their friends can base no rightful 
claim to their continued existence on their origin or their 
antiquity. This is the spirit in which our industrial 
system must be tried. Only thus can we hope to avoid 
revolutions, and make rightful use of the possibilities of 



modern civilization, and preserve unshaken the stability 
of democratic institutions ; only thus can v^^e hope to 
contribute somewhat toward making a great and power- 
ful people doers of righteousness and lovers of justice 
and peace. 




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CLASS POEM. 

THE INNER LIGHT. 

SHATTUCK O. HARTWELL. 



Not mine to chant the ivy's praise 

Or sing in lighter strain 
Such roUickings in college days 

As ne'er shall come again. 

But here the harder task I find — 

To speak, before we part, 
The surging thought of every mind, 

The feeling of each heart 

As now, between the Old and New 

We stand, reluctant yet. 
To change the narrow for a broader view. 

The old life to forget; 

Half-eager still to cast away 

The trammels of the Past, 
At once to enter on the active day 

Whose dawning comes so fast. 

Thought, mem'ry, hope, are all confused to-day, 
Now surging toward the past, returning still 

With onward rush beneath hope's stronger sway. 
With deeper feeling and more purposed will 

To fairer castles imaged in the light 

Which gleams upon the path of future years 

And in the glory of its lustre bright, 

O'ercomes all sadness and all gloomy fears. 

Beneath the passing touch of mingled thought. 
The chords of feeling all, alike, resound ; 

Yet 'mid them all the deepest, clearest, not 
That of memory, but that of hope, is found. 

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May we not catch from out this mingled strain 
An undertone of truth inspiring all? 

Finds in its harmony the deep refrain 
Which on attentive ears may gently fall, 

Breathing a message that perhaps may teach 
Some fitting lesson if a simple one, 

A word that soon or late must come to each 
Who now finds pleasure past and life begun. 



The morning flush is rising 
Far o'er the eastern hill ; 

But yet beneath the heavens 
The earth is hushed and still. 

The city's streets deserted 

Are silent as the dead, 
Save for the muffled echo 

Of some lone watchman's tread, 

As through the lonely pathways 

He hurries swiftly on. 
Impatient of the silence. 

The darkness and the gloom. 

The life that through those courses 
A few short hours before, 

Was beating like the billows 
That smite a rocky shore. 

Lies now all hushed and silent 
In the semblance of death. 

The light has gone that urged it on. 
And night's cold, blasting breath 

Has overcome the vigor 
Of every struggling soul. 

But now the eastern landscape 
Receives the onward roll 

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Of the broad waves of sunlight 
That flood the glowing east, 

And, pressing ever onward, 
Eager to gain the west. 

Fill all the wond'rous heavens 

With the radiance of day, 
Such wealth of God's pure sunlight 

As, it seems, should last alway. 

As when, in days of battle. 
The clarion call "To arms !" 

Wakes every man to action, 
Each sleepy watch alarms ; 

Thus the purple glow of morning 

Calls all men to the fray ; 
And with eager force and vigor, 

We enter a new day. 

The light that comes from beyond us. 
The planet that shines above, 

Rouses again to action ; 
To deeds of glory and love. 

From home, be it hovel or palace. 

At the magic call of light, 
Forth from the open doorways 

That are open toward that Light, 

Again through its mighty channels 

Courses the city's life ; 
Ready again to enter 

The daily labor and strife ; 

Some stirred by motives of pleasure. 

Some sordidly seeking gain. 
While others will strive to lessen 

The burden of guilt and pain 

That weighs down their fellow-mortals ; 

But all, for good or ill. 
Filled with new hope and purpose, 

Seeking with stronger will , 

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The aims for which they have battled 

Perhaps for weary years. 
The new light makes them forgetful — 

The future has no tears. 

Thus the crowded pent-up thousands 
Press toward the shop and mart, 

And pouring outward through the streets, 
Seek the great city's heart 

And the light that shines above us 

Illumines still the goal 
Of our actions, thoughts, ambitions ; 

It is solace enough for each soul 

Until the shadows lengthen. 

Then, as they grow apace 
And the dreary darkness settles 

Again over Nature's face. 

Amid the gathering twilight 

The soul must seek perforce 
Some other inspiration, 

Light from some other source. 

And, as the western hilltops 

Receive the Sun to rest, 
Again to sleep in their bosom, 

To lie on Nature's breast — 

Back from the heart of the city 

With wearied, pulsing flow, 
Comes the ebbing stream of human life. 

Homeward the thousands go. 

And the doors that in the morning 
Opened outward toward the light 

Are turned again on their hinges 
To welcome them from the night. 

But now they open inward 

And reveal another light 
That falls with tender radiance 

Upon our tired sight. 

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It gleams with pleasant welcome, 
Speaks peace and comfort and rest ; 

And the spirit tried by life's turmoil, 
Feels this the light that is best. 



"In youth all doors are open outward," says the sage. 

But as the years fast-flying bring old age, 

And with the passing days 

Ambition ceases now to raise 

Our hopes on high, the tired heart, 

Weary of struggling for the paltry part 

Which it may gain 

Of honor, riches, fame, 

Turns inward on itself and finds there the clear light 

That proves the greatest blessing given to our sight. 

We stand upon the threshold of the parting ways ; 

Our eager eyes already catch the rays 

That shine from where the strife 

Of the world's power and action is most rife. 

The distant clamor faintly strikes our ears 

Yet wakes within us neither doubts nor fears ; 

But stirs instead the hope 

That we with life may cope, 

And in the midst of labor and of toil may find 

Some active outlet for the eager mind. 

Youth has slight room for memory in its breast. 

"Forward" its motto and its type Unrest. 

Impatient to be free. 

To leave behind restraints that here have bound 

Through years that seem to us one weary round 

Whose present use we cannot see 

And future good still less descry — 

Ambition urges, and with eager cry 

We seek ourselves to sunder from a useless past. 

And come in contact with the world at last! 

High aims and high desires fill us all. 
We wait, impatient for the battle's call, 
Scorning a dull repose ; 

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Ready to meet the mighty foes 

That never cease to fight 

Those who would battle for the true and right. 

And though we recognize in part 

That this intensity and strength of heart 

Receive their inspiration from our college days, 

The backward glance is short. We may not stop to praise. 

Amherst! enshrined among the circling hills, 

Whose chastened beauty all the valley fills, 

Perhaps we may not now 

Place fitting chaplets on thy noble brow. 

For us the doors are opening outward, and the light 

That gleams from far upon our dazzled sight, 

Eclipses half the beauty and the grace 

That shine upon us from thy lovely face. 

Thy gray-head sons who now return, reveal 

Toward thee a stronger sentiment than we can feel. 

But, Classmates, if I read aright the simple tale 

Which I have tried to speak, we shall not fail 

As fleeting years over our heads shall roll, 

To look within the chambers of the soul. 

And catch the radiance there 

That shines surpassing fair ; 

The light which brings us solace and relief 

When outward suns are dimmed by time and grief. 

That shines more bright as distant shadows lengthen, 

And after weary toil, gleams forth our hearts to strengthen. 

Then, when through doors that open inward, we retrace 

The path of years and seek again the place 

Where first that light was nurtured, we shall see 

Amherst! our purest thoughts turn back to thee! 

Worship again thy rugged hills. 

Drink deep the vital air that fills 

With inspiration and with earnest life! 

And as for truth's sake now we seek the strife, 

Then shall we know in full thy faith and might 

Who kept us ever pointed toward the right. 

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Classmates of Eighty-eight, how e'er our ways may sever, 

Returning oft, in thought returning ever, 

May we our gifts to Amherst consecrate! 

Whether to us the impartial hand of fate 

Give fame, or wealth, or, better, such success 

As comes when steadfast manliness 

Works on unconscious of its power. 

When hope seems dead and storm clouds darkly lower, 

May we be able to return again 

And say to Amherst, "Thou hast made us men!" 



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GROVE ORATION. 

JOHN H. MILLER. 

Ladies and Gentlemen: — You are assembled here 
to-day to witness one of the most notable events of the 
present century. You are the favored few, selected from 
among the whole race of man, to whom it is given 
to attend the last gathering and to hear the final 
farewell of the class of '88. One day more and the 
brilliance of the beacon that for four years has brightened 
the path of progress for the civilized world will cease, 
and, separated into many tongues of flame, will be 
carried to far distant places. Would I were gifted with 
the silver tongue ot Demosthenes or the many brass 
tongues of the College Chimes, that I might impress the 
irreverent among you with a due sense of the influence 
exerted upon civilization by the aggregation of physical 
courage and intellectual ability now seated so unpreten- 
tiously on the ground before you. Leave off, for a 
moment, the attempt to fathom the depths of character 
concealed by that modest expression of conscious worth 
you see in so many faces ; disregard even the patronizing 
air so inevitable in a truly great man, and review briefly 
the progress of the world in the past four years. 

In all departments of life the world has advanced 
with prodigious strides. In religion, thought was never 
so free nor creeds so broad as at present. In science, 
discoveries have been pushed to the greatest extent, and 
their results been embodied in every sort of contrivance 
to contribute to man's ease and convenience, so that 
to-day the world knows more, and knows better how to 

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use its knowledge than ever before. The peace of 
nations has been preserved, and international intercourse 
been increased. The manufacturer realizes the greatest 
profits, and the farmer, by labor-saving implements, 
compels even inanimate nature to contribute to his 
wants to an unprecedented extent. The press enjoys 
the greatest freedom, and the Waterbury watch goes 
faster than ever before. Within four years two great 
political parties have changed places and the progress of 
the nation continued undisturbed. The United States 
Senate has advanced, hand in hand with the College 
Senate, to a place of the highest dignity among the 
legislative bodies of the globe. In brief, the world has 
grown better in every way. (We freely give credit for 
the foregoing beautiful passage to the Philosophy 
Department.) 

Although native modesty compels me to recognize 
the possibility of some other cause for much of this 
progress, yet more than all other influences combined, I 
hold to be the energy and genius now collected for your 
benefit within this circle of seats. Judge then, ye 
unbelievers,, how ominous must sound the farewells that 
announce the discontinuance of such an influence, and 
the resignation of such an important charge as the 
progress of the world to other and untried hands. 

But he who imagines it to be the duty of the Grove 
Orator to force such serious thoughts upon you would 
convict himself of ignorance more deplorable even than 
that of the Sophomore lemonade committee at the liquor 
trial. No, you have already heard enough of burning 
eloquence and well-balanced periods from the two 
orators of the day, who, doubtless, have settled or 
exploded affairs of great importance. The multitude of 
speakers of yesterday also showed how the habit of 
weekly debates, if persisted in, will "play fast and 

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loose" with the nerves. These make up the substantial 
part of the feast. But in accordance with a custom 
dating from that little spread given to "a few of the 
boys, don't ye know," by Cana of Galilee, the final 
course of the feast is to be served without any further 
remark as to its comparative merits. 

This will not consist exclusively of unrestrained 
ebullitions of original wit, nor of the "euphuistic 
affectations" of the English Literature Department, 
although a few of its "delectable titillations," and a 
slight touch of "sycophantic sarcasm" have been 
judiciously introduced. Old subscribers will easily 
recognize the original sparkle of those gems of wit — the 
police force and fire department ; but, we regret to state, 
the completion of the Central Massachusetts R. R. has 
deprived us of much that has been fruitful in other 
years. If every burst of hilarity is not instantly appre- 
ciated, buy the Student Extra ; with each copy is 
furnished a beautiful incandescent lamp with the aid of 
which the point of every joke will be plainly visible. 
The illumination of the jokes taken from Punch, however, 
is not guaranteed. 

You are welcome, every one, to this farewell "feast 
of reason." And let none ask wherefore, for he would 
be "seeking a reason for reason, which would be the 
absurdity of seeking for precisely what he already has." 
(This fine specimen of accurate thought and cultivated 
English style is taken direct from Hickok and Seelye's 
Moral Science, revised and enlarged by Bunten.) After 
inflicting upon you a selection of such a character, I feel 
the most acceptable apology I can offer is the sentiment 
expressed in the one word — Farewell. 

Gentlemen of the Faculty: — It is only within 
recent years that any have dared to address you in this 
place. Why such should be the case it is hard to say. 

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Your addresses to us on many occasions have been by 
no means ambiguous. Many a one among us has in his 
possession a collection of short addresses, each announc- 
ing that his term-bill, due sometime in the uncertain 
past — is yet unpaid. Some, perhaps, have a lingering 
memory even of personal addresses, delivered on 
occasions when the recitation did not indicate that 
death-like grip on the subject characteristic of an 
uncompromising pursuit of truth. A few, assisted by 
the Loisette Memory s5'-stem, can dimly recall an address 
in which a mysterious mob of house-breakers were 
characterized in scathing periods, as "cowards, falsifiers 
and mean," and were given to understand that only the 
overflowing benevolence of the speaker's heart prevented 
the use of more appropriate epithets. 

We can forgive all your uncomplimentary addresses, 
and — it may be — remember for some time a few of your 
many wise sayings. For four years we have listened, 
beaming with a regulation Apthorp smile, to your Latin 
and Greek moralizing, and laughed at your octogenarian 
jokes, those laughing loudest being rewarded with good 
marks. The chairs in a certain lower room in Williston 
Hall bear scars that will never be effaced, in witness of 
our triumphant passage through the Chemistry Depart- 
ment. We sympathize with you in your mistakes, we 
have made them ourselves. We realize as well as 
yourselves the immense benefit that would accrue to 
the College if a few members of your august body were 
finally relegated to the curiosity shelves of Appleton 
Cabinet. Yet we are convinced we have materially 
aided in your development in the four years of our 
association. And if we have accomplished this much, 
our course has not been entirely in vain. Commending 
you to the future mercies of a class whose evil influence 
is well predicted in that unbridled and licentious 

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pablication, the '8g Olio, we pronounce with many 
regrets, the word — Farewell. 

Town-Fathers: — The extent of our obligations to 
you will be shown by your ledger accounts, with far 
more exactness than by any words of mine. We have 
supported you and your families by the sweat of our 
brow, and have entertained you, free of charge, with 
sparkling pleasantries, pyrotechnic displays and mid- 
night serenades. We have consumed barrels of kerosene 
devising new plans for your amusement, and have passed 
many a sleepless night in their execution. But in your 
stolid indifference you have never appreciated us. All 
our endeavors to cultivate in you an admiration for the 
art of town decoration have been lost. Even our 
dignified class president, a talented artist of the realistic 
school, has attracted small notice. You will look upon 
our departure with tearless eyes, and in your ingratitude 
and fickleness of affection you will accept promissory 
notes from other hands and with Phoenix-like hope, you 
will even expect, perhaps, to be paid. For your coarse 
understanding and unrefined judgment, our place 
will be sufficiently filled by succeeding classes. 

But in spite of your base ingratitude, we wish you 
well for the future. You have lost much valuable time 
and more bad temper, trying to agree about a cemetery ; 
but don't be discouraged ; it is a grave question and 
could not have been settled all at once. Get a large one 
when at last you decide, and there will be no trouble 
filling it, if many of your younger fellow-citizens 
continue as uniformly insulting as they have been in the 
past. When a student shows you a "Co-op." ticket, 
multiply the amount of his purchase by four so as to 
give him a fair discount and secure his future trade, he 
expects it ; he has paid a dollar for it. The military 
ardor of Company K should be restrained, lest the 

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Aggies lose heart and despair of ever attaining that 
martial bearing and extreme redness of nose. We hope 
that some day you will come to realize how valuable has 
been our advice and how great your neglected oppor- 
tunities. We bequeath to you the College Band, now in 
all \hQ full-blown vigor of youth; and hope, when you are 
leaving town to avoid some future "Open Air Concert," 
your hearts may fill with regretful tenderness, mindful of 
the day we departed with the word — Farewell. 

Gentlemen of '89: — To you who will endure the 
cold of another polar winter in these "classic shades," 
we would address many words of advice and warning. 
But it would be useless. By experience alone you may 
learn to carry the weight of dignity which it becomes 
your lot to support. Be courageous. Do not quail 
before the soporific logic and the bright sparkling 
thought of the College pulpit. Do not despair of 
comprehending that obscure doctrine, that "A power 
that makes treaties is a treaty-making power." If you 
do not shrink from the cipher dispatch, the fairy 
windows and the vanishing point you will see Spencer, 
Huxley, Tyndall, one by one, not only driven to the 
wall, but flung over it, and will hear the sickening thud 
as they drop on the other side. 

But be not too courageous. Follow the experience 
of four years and don't bet on the ball team, unless you 
have discovered the combination that opens the sub- 
Treasury vaults. Better save your money and build 
another fence to meet the increasing demand. To you 
also we say — Farewell. 

Classmates: — For four years we have stuck together 
like postage stamps on a hot day. Yet who could have 
imagined the great change that has taken place in so 
short a time. Who could have suspected that the tall 

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giant from the prairies of Iowa would become our 
"obelisk" first baseman? Or that the bearded Anarchist 
from the woods of Maine, would become a naturalized 
citizen, and prance over the pedals and stops of the 
College organ with such fairy grace? Yet great as is the 
change it has all been wrought in the four shortest years 
of our lives, now coming to a close. 

Many and sad are the thoughts that must arise when 
we know that for the last time we have heard, echoing 
about the campus, the resonant tones of "Babbum cum 
cantu," the "Zodiac-bull." For the last time we have 
seen " Harry and Chawley" joyfully starting on the 
"seven-mile ride" behind one of "Paige's record- 
breakers." Yet, sad though it be, our farewell must be 
said. 

Many of us are to keep up the Amherst reputation 
of furnishing the world with ministers. Let them not 
assume the inevitable ministerial air too soon, for we 
have known their wicked ways in College and might 
"give it away." Let them do all their preaching and 
"Rammy-fying" in the pulpit. Those that go as mis- 
sionaries must not be too forward about passing the 
collection-box, for the cannibals, I have heard, are very 
particular about these small things. 

Undoubtedly a few of those who try will become 
physicians. Let them not neglect the doctrine of 
the Organic Unity of Mankind. There is no principle 
that will make a patient die easier and quicker than 
this. 

The lawyers in futuro have all heard that there is 
"plenty of room at the top;" but their experience will 
show them that the most room is at the bottom, 
nevertheless. 

The incipient journalists will do well to make a 
study of the Amherst Record ; the sarcasm of its editorial 

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columns is unexcelled and for chaste invective its 
criticisms of College affairs are without a rival. 

To those considering the pawn -broker business we 
would say "Don't." It is too much of a nervous strain ; 
and you would never succeed in competition with our 
affable Fourth-platoon captain. 

Let those who are "going into business" seek some 
quiet position where the salary varies directly as the 
inclination to loaf and inversely as the square of the 
time employed. 

But away with thoughts of the future, and bid a last 
farewell to the Chapel, where contracts are made and 
broken. A last farewell to Walker Hall, whose golden 
dolphin and stony-hearted gargoyles have grinned in 
derision at the victims of many an intellectual contest 
within those walls. A last farewell to Williston Hall, 
where the noxious gases of science are mingled with the 
"pure forms" of Art. A last farewell to the Gym., 
where a small purple and white flag has for four years 
told its story of victory. A last farewell to College Hall, 
the only remaining relic of the glacial period. Beneath 
its roof some of us will receive ^^ magna cum laude,"" one 
or two "summa cum laude'^ but many will have to be 
content with ''sine cum lauded With that occasion will 
close the period of our association with each other — 
a period of mutual aid and development — a period of 
harmony and good feeling. With that occasion will 
begin the serious problems of life — about which we have 
heard so much and know so little. 

But while we have been talking together, we have 
arrived at the place where the way divides. How many 
paths are there! Hardly a one among them will be 
traveled in company with any of our present comrades. 
Most of us must journey alone. A lusty farewell, then, 

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to him whose path lies over the mountain, an earnest 
hand-shake to the one who must journey by the valley, 
hearty wishes to the few who will win fame and honor, 
and cheering words to the man}^, who, alas, must main- 
tain an unequal struggle. Comrades all, farewell ; and 
may our paths not be so steep and rugged but that they 
may meet again before the journey ends. 



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GROVE POEM. 

ALBERT SPRAGUE BARD. 

Ladies and Gentlemen: — not to be partial, 
Gentlemen — Ladies: — the stronger, more martial 
Sex ought not be after the girls all the time, 
Injustice like that in the fair sex were crime. 

Dear Friends, could you see me inside, 'twould appear 

I'm as sorry as you are to see myself here ; 

'Tis to me, as to you, the severest of blows ; 

Why I'm here, only Heaven — and the Senior Class, knows. 

The election was close ; it seems proper to you 

Does it not, that the poem should be as close, too? 

I was pleased at election ; that is, at the first, 

And called it an honor ; but soon I reversed 

My decision and called it an onerous work ; 

And I'm sure that the choice was a fraud ; and that shirk 

Of a fellow — the other man up for the place, 

Who came in ahead although left in the race — 

Stuffed the ballot-box, not for himself, and he won 

Though he lost. Yet there was a recoil to his gun ; 

For the very next vote (other schemers take warning) 

Made him Poet of Ivy ; you heard him this morning. 

The Oration de Ivy, the Poem de-Vine 

The Oration called Grove and this treeixs^ of mine 

Are all plant to show you (you can't but descry it) 

Our mind-food tends toward vegetarian diet. 

It is meat thus to feed you no boarding house leather. 

So some tongue is the only flesh served this warm weather. 

I've read in the Scriptures — some of you may have read it 

There too, 'twas the Wise-Man that said it — 

Even herbs will make fairly respectable fare 

If, happily, plenty of love, too, is there. 

If it's true — and the Wives-man should know — at the least 

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Amherst, 1888. 



Class Secretary. 

(Dear S:r:=^ 
I have received the '88 Class <Book. To my record 
as 'printed, I would add 



/ send the following additional information concern- 
ing 



/ enclose 

{Signed) ■^«*^^- 

Street and No. 

T own or City . 

State. 



Class of '88. 



Classmates. ■== 

The Class (Book is before you a.nd may speak 
for itself. I trust you will like it. For the errors that have 
doubtless escaped his notice, in spite of care, the Secretary 
craves your forbearance. 

As Treasurer he wotdd call attention to the subjoined 
account: 

RECEIPTS. 

Amount collected by Garfield, - $74.00 

" received since, - - - 7.00 

EXPENDITURES. 

Garfield's expenses, 
Hartwell's expenses to date, 
Printing, @ $1.00 per page, - 
Est. Postage, - - - . 

$158.38 

jV(7 better terms could be secured from any printer 
conveniently located, and it was thought that a book as cowi= 
plete as possible to date would make the preparation of future 
bulletins easier, and less expensive. The Treasurer would 
suggest a yearly tax of $1.00 per member, a sum adopted 
by several earlier classes. This, for this year, would settle 
the present account and give a balance for such expenses as 
m.ust be met if the class wishes the Secretary to keep them 
informed of class news. 

In any case, your prompt rettirn of the accompany^ 
ing blank, suitably filled out, will help toward keeping 
records up to date. I shall be glad to send to the "Student" 
such items of interest to all as the classmates may forward 
to me. 

S. O. HAfRTWELL. 



$81. 


.00 


% 10. 


,80 


16, 


58 


121. 


,00 


10. 


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These scant scraps make a rich, intellectual feast, 

For there's one at the board who's consumed with a love 

For — the Chapel — or any place out of the Grove. 

But I'm here ; yes, and now I am here, I shall stay ; 
My fear is, 'tis you who'll perchance run away. 
But to those who don't go a confession I'll make : — 
This poem, unlike those that lie in the wake 
Of these flying Commencements, was never composed 
In a morning, perchance while a sleepy class dozed, 
Or dashed off at odd moments between recitations, 
With the College-well's old oaken bucket libations 
To furnish exhaustless and fresh inspirations — 
And suggest where the cats from Tip's Lab. go, vacations. 
But each page stands for weeks of enfeebling, grim toil 
And for gallons of midnight, yes, two o'clock oil. 
Begrudge not the work, though it most made me ill, 
But I do wish the class would please pay my oil bill. 
Of the brilliancy spent in this labor of mine 
These verses show none, but that bill is a sign. 

Though this poem's unlike to the rest in construction, 
That the matter's unlike, can't be got by induction ; 
And if sundry old jokes are entirely suppressed not. 
Please remember that part of this Grove here is chestnut. 

Perhaps it were well to make clear at the first 
Why oration, then poem — and why not reversed. 
It is plain that the rhyme must be last to succeed ; 
More than that woman always — watch the bonnets give heed- 
Says her say the last one ; and so, not to abuse 
Time-worn custom, we give the last word to the Muse. 
But why here at all? Ancient usage again. 
While willing to fix up the tariff — we fain 
Would cling to the customs ; and so we retain 
This exercise here. I'll try to explain. 



Twenty times twenty years ago, when Amherst still was not, 
Yet was not still, for red-men lived upon the lovely spot. 
Long years ago when game was plentiful but gaming rare. 
When deer was very cheap, and motley was the only wear, 

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Ere clothes made worth, or Worth made clothes, when bucks and not 

the squaws 
Wore feathers, when the men, not women did bare arms, when laws 
Were natural freaks of chiefs, and doctors chiefly freaks of nature. 
And smoking was the least bad thing they did in legislature, 
And yet while bad and bloody in their council conversations 
They still were honest — good examples to our modern nations — 
For tho' discussion oft grew fierce and hot with rage and ire, 
Their sole and only falsehood was — to lie about the fire ; 
You see how tempora mutantur — in some respects for worse, 
In some for better : Patience! — I shan't moralize in verse ; — 
In this old once-upon-a-time of which I did make mention, 
When toothless animated mummies sat in grim convention 
Beneath these mountains, and the paint-striped brave afire with wrath 
Took life, took property, took everything except a bath ; 
When dusky Hiawathas sang to black-haired Minnehahas 
(There were no apron-strings back there, to tie boys to their mamas) 
And serenaded with enunciations clear, intense 
From the climate that still hovers round about the College fence ; 
And these their accents, "Cumb, oh cumb wid me, the mboon is 

shidig," 
While moccasins were shied to stop their plaintive "pidig," 
And lynx-eyed old Nokomis's stole round to see that all 
The lambs were folded safe behind the deer-skin "Convent" wall ; 
Back in that barbero\xs time when close-shaves happened every day, 
And if a red-skin "cut your hair," no quarter was the pay ; 
Yes, centuries ago, when Hannah, heavenly maid, was young. 
Ere time had marred with Waite of years, when on the lowest rung 
Of the commercial ladder pressed her dainty moccasin. 
When Hannah sold for wampttm tennis-caps of beaverskin. 
Suspenders, made with care of thongs from the wide antlered moose. 
And neck-ties made of human hair — too sweet for any use ; 
Clear, clear back then, the Indians had a solemn institution 
From which ours here has grown by processes of evolution. 

Whene'er the youths arrived in proper numbers to that age 
When they must cease from shooting birds and rabbits to engage 
In sterner warfare, craftier plots, to cope with dangerous game. 
Perchance themselves be hunted ; when, I say, the striplings came 
T' assume the bearskin shirt — the toga-virile of the red-men — 
And when no longer must they watch the baking family bread pan 

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Although they'd rather go play jackstones on their grandpa's grave ; 

To honor the momentous day, that to them freedom gave, 

To mark the time when Manhood first broke full upon their view, 

And celebrate the taking Bravehood's rights (its duties few) 

They used to choose some grassy slope beneath the arching trees 

Whose song-filled branches, stretched to catch the lightly-kissing 

breeze. 
Unsatisfied did sigh for more ; and far off over head 
The cloud-ships slowly moved, their snowy sails full-spread ; 
Encircling hills of dappled green so peacefully lay that clot 
Of blood, or pain would seem a sacrilege. This was the spot. 
Here came the Indian youths to bid boy-hood "good-bye." Around, 
Fond papas, mamas, sisters, cousins, aunts, o'erspread the ground. 
All in their smartest clothes and paint ; as usual, each one felt 
Himself, herself, th' observed of all observers, fixed his belt 
With careless air to show the choicest scalps, or bounced and 

wiggled 
Coquettishly, and posed when not a soul observed — and giggled. 
The youths, collected in the center, vied in Indian sports, 
Shot arrows, danced, leaped, executed feats of many sorts 
They sang "Great Spirit Save the Sachem;" then the rites would 

cease 
By all collecting in a ring to smoke the pipe of peace. 

Soon after this the plucky little Mayflower crossed the sea 

With all its cargo that has since gained such celebrity ; 

The patriotic Pilgrim son distrusts not men's veracity 

When "relics" are displayed, but wonders at the ship's capacity ; — 

Two hundred tables, sixteen hundred chairs, some ninety kettles, 

Five book-cases of Bibles, with a thousand wooden settles ; 

A half a million ancestors — and then I draw it mild, 

Ten mothers of the "first male Massachusetts child;" 

Miles Standish's thirty swords, twelve hats, nine coats at \^3.St an{d) 

dishes 
Enough to furnish a hotel ; — the Pilgrim offspring wishes 
That Noah could have seen the cargo of this close-crammed bark, 
For fairly green with envy he'd have scuttled the old ark ; 
However queer the freight was, on that 'Air erratic ship, 
New England would have made him crawl — she gets there every trip. 

The colony increased and spread ; a band came here — and stopped 
According to their way of founding towns, they chopped 

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The trees down (after taking each a good big drink behind them) 
And made a clearing so the Indians could easily find them. 
Then piously they toiled to raise a church — this first of all ; 
It stands to-day, the oldest building here, now College Hall. 

The village grew. The Indians all had gone excepting Hannah, 
And she had changed (O evolutionists, hoist high your banner!) 
Her wigwam now a shop ; a shingle out in front, her sign ; 
To skin, not animals, but customers, was now her line ; 
Her dress, not now of fur, came /i^rther down, while on her feet 
Were shoes, not moccasins. And yet the change was not complete 
For she now old, though marred, was still not married ; still the taint 
Of Indian blood showed through the white wash — Hannah still would 
paint. 

But times had changed, and men and customs with them. College 

Hall 
Was then the scene of services divine, funereal, 
Of marriage, public reprimands and all such solemn fun, 
In short, of every Puritan assembly save this one : — 
Whene'er a number of young men decided to go out 
And seek in further wilds with faith-filled hearts and courage stout. 
New homes for self or for, perchance, some bodiced, kerchiefed maid 
Beloved in the most proper, quiet way, who when was said 
"I prithee, be my wife; 'twould please me," answered — you know 

how ; 
The young men used, ere they went out, to gather on the brow 
Of some green knoll beneath the trees. About, the village folk 
Were grouped, who listened while the young men each his goodbye 

spoke. 
This over, then they gathered in the centre for a sing ; 
The parents of these very trees here heard "God Save the King." 

The years have passed. And Hannah! — time has wiung this chest- 
nut-belle, — 
Preserved of all preservers here "not wisely but too well ;" 
Through long, on-flowing decades she has scarce at all decayed. 
And while her hose is slimmer has increased her stock in' trade ; 
By living she has learned, for all her goods are custom-fetchers. 
Her last addition is a box of Carman's trouser-stretchers. 

As present times and customs and alas! our lass, our Hannah, 
Are growths of older times ; so, too, these rites in similar manner. 

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Quite thus this fleshly age of ours owes to an age now boney 

The seed whose present, riper growth is this our ceremony ; 

Because the youth did gather here of warring Indian bands, 

To-day beneath the spreading tree the village chestnut stands 

And undergoes with fortitude these exercises Grove 

(Or grave), as did the Pilgrim maid, like branches stretched above — 

And so our exercises, from two prototypes the growth, 

Resemble neither strictly, but partake of some of both. 

We young men are just going forth to do each one his part. 

And overcome the world ; (perchance, to some a single heart 

Will seem the world, and when the world's gained, nothing's left to 

get); 
We therefore meet you, friends, and talk a little ere we set 
Our faces toward the cross-roads. But we cannot all engage, 
So, in accordance with that principle of this great age 
Which Dr. Tuttle says now makes the world go round. Division 
Of Labor, this Grove exercise has undergone revision : 
Instead of all addressing you, t' accord with modern notions, 
But two of us have been selected to go through the motions. 
The labor ought to be divided equally, 'tis clear ; 
And so our classmates are compelled to sit around and hear. 

And fearing violence for my poor verses when I'm through, 
I fain would sing here, as our friends of by-gone days did do ; 
And yet I cannot sing the old songs, for this line alone 
I fain would hum, "God save the — pieces," in an undertone. 

And soon, as did the Indian youths, we'll smoke one pipe o' peace. 
Our "weed" is no dried coleslaw, either, you can tell with ease. 

But disappointment meets us here, for once these exercises 

Concluded with the presentation of a few choice prizes ; 

But now a modest band, to have their merits known quite loth, 

(Their modesty, if such it be is of a recent growth) 

Or was it conscience that did put a flea in every ear, 

Since they had often put "the serpent" down their throats? 'Twas 

fear, 
I think, the orator might take advantage of the day. 
And right 'fore friends and relatives, here give them dead away. 
And others, too, there were who knew the game would all be up 
If 'fore one guest they were presented with a tin Class-Cup. 

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These timid ones opposed presenting prizes here and now ; 

We launched the question in the class, but "Death sat on the prow." 

You thus have heard how grew "the Grove" and why the present 

time 
Presents it as it is ; you've had the reason ; — now the rhyme. 



I sing no courtly, val'rous knight of ancient story, 

No noble hero in religion, war or state. 
No deed deserving priceless fame and glory. 

But simply Amherst class-composite eighty-eight. 

This class composite was not photographed by Lovell, 

Nor yet by Baker e'en of Saratoga fame, 
'Twas taken not in Pach's wee photographing hovel, 

'Twas never photographed, yet taken all the same. 

'Tis a composite 7^1? //<?w, not a photograph, 5'ou see; 
And taken by the Amherst College Faculty ; 
To briefly sketch their notion of him falls to me. 

They took the first impression four long years ago 

When first they took us in (the class took them in, too,) 

While /r^j-^ impressions fill successive terms ; and so 
I think they have a very taking way, don't you? 

This eighty-eight composite fellow is no "beaut," 
Though Wilkie's silky 'tash and siders help him out ; 

Two Davie's av'raged, give about his height ; a suit 

Of mixed goods clothes a figure strong and full, not stout. 

Though lacking not in brains, this man has lots of muscle. 

Owns many college records, often's got a pair 
Of prizes in one contest ; in the study tussle 

He is not bad — though Wilkie cannot help him there. 

He'll sing — his voice midway 'twixt "Purse's" and "Blusham's' 
tones — 

Converse in Polyglot, tell names of rocks and plants, 
Play all the instruments the College Brass-Band owns. 

The solitary thing he cannot do is — dance. 

The fellow's queer : he changes oft from mood to mood. 
One moment quite polite, the next one very rude. 

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Oq Sunday nights he stays at home and drinks and swears, 
He also goes to meeting and makes lovely prayers. 

He's very tasteful, owns a mighty pretty room. 

With rugs, shelves, tables, china, etchings, and engravings ; 

A white and purple bow adorns the fireplace broom ; 
The whole effect excites the gushing Smithite's ravings. 

He also owns another room ; this never looked 

Quite Christian, with its ninety-nine cent frames and prints, 
It's side-walls polka-dotted with the signs he's hooked, 

The paper underneath in circus-poster tints. 

He thinks a hireling never can make up a bed 

So it will stay ; then too, the purse is ill-supplied ; 

In consequence he "makes it up" himself instead — 

The sheets are tacked on round the foot and further side. 

Although this last room's ugly as the College fence. 
This fellow still can claim a fine aesthetic sense ; 

For the tobacco that he smokes has Turkish names 
Whose very sound hints luxury and cushioned ease 

Calls visions up of minarets, and crimson flames 

Exhaling perfumes, and fair women veiled — and fleas. 

Because extremes so meet his mind is not deranged : 
'Tis often thus when fellows are so versatile ; 

Toward one thing, though, his attitude is never changed. 
He always cordially dislikes to pay a bill. 

This portraiture is very crude — perhaps untrue, 

A reproduction of another portrait, too ; 

How close the reprint likeness is, I'll leave to you. 

This eighty-eight composite fellow — this we'll settle — 
A Jack of all trades is ; he therefore has in mind 

In raising up the world \\i\sjack should try his mettle 
If only he the opportunity can find. 

He wants a weedy field, so turned to politics, 
A chance was surely here for a high-minded lad ; 

They do not need the whole of him ; besides, the mix 
Is no worse now than long'ago ; 'twas always bad. 

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He thought upon the ministry, a noble calling 

Both quite engaging, yes, and weddiiig ; then, too, he viewed 
The College Pastor toward the "broad and straight way" falling 

Until along with the Toboggan Club, he's sued. 

The fellow thus would like to raise the ministry, 

But rather far than marry fain would married be ; 

He'd make a first-rate ^rcww — knows "horses" thoroughly. 

He thought he'd be a druggist selling festive "fiz," 
But read those melancholy words from Deuel's pen, 

And saw he'd bid farewell to such a ^V7.ytly biz, 

If not with bag and baggage, damn and damage then. 

He thought of being, then, a sociologist — 

He's taken pol. econ., debates and question drawer. 

These surely will help solve the problems that exist. 
And tell "why selfish modern men don't marry more." 

He studied up and found the men were not to blame, 
Men's marriages and women's number just the same. 

And thus he's been clear through the list of avocations 
From suits of law to poco's second-hands, unable 

To find one big enough, of empty situations, 

Except " the cloth" — a summer job around a table. 

Thus the supply is greater far than the demand. 
Or places that he likes the best least loudly call, 

But since to some work he's compelled to turn his hand. 
He thinks he'll do no one, but something in them all. 

This eighty-eight composite has a host of friends, 

Three townships full of relatives, of ancestors 
Five cemeteries, of mere acquaintances no ends. 

Of girls — just eighty-nine are "best ones" he adores. 

In short, so well acquainted in this world is he 
(Or in the other) that he goes forth cheerfully. 

He wants to leave behind him something very nice 

Besides a memory ; alas! he's in such straits 
That all that he can give is scraplets of advice — 

He has no cash, his furniture's all sold to Gates. 



To Amherst farmers he would say : — just keep your eye 
Upon our spendthrift Faculty, so wasteful — very, 

Or else the town will furnish people when they die 
That useless modern luxury, a cemetery. 

To Faculty he'd say : — don't mind the " horny handed;" 
They never studied "Hickok, " think the State created 

By compact. In taown-meetin', just keep the floor well sanded 
And sit near windows or you'll be asphyxiated. 

He wants to warn the class of eighty-nine against 

The oratorical department's appetite ; 
If they no class-day concert have — a scheme commenced 

This year — it may attempt to swallow Tuesday night. 

O girls, to you he says a single line — no more ; 
Remember eighteen eighty-eight divides by four. 

The fellow has lots more advice that he could give 
But he will substitute for it his thanks. Receive 

His gratitude for evidence indicative 

Of interest, for coming up to see him leave. 

It's hard to go, he's been so happy these four years ; 

You must not think him careless, if he lightly goes 
With merry jest and laughter — smiles may cover tears. 

How much the gay appearance costs, no other knows. 

So, out — the lips still smiling, though the eyes are grave, 
In's heart this prayer "long may the white and purple wave." 



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CLASS ODE. 



TAMES EWING. 

Air — ' 'Bctilah Land, 



Swift years have fled since Eighty-eight 
First sang defiance bold to fate. 
Then rang familiar accents gay 
And every care had sped away. 

Cho. — Loud then we'll raise 
Old Amherst's praise, 
We'll sing her fame 
And spread her name. 

Long years may come— bright years have gone, 
True hearts our Alma Mater won, 
And "Eighty-eight" shall ever see 
Her faith, dear Amherst, true to thee. 

When glasses clinked for merry toasts. 
Or shone the moon 'mid starry hosts ; 
On lonely path or crowded street 
With song our friends we e'er must greet. 

To-day, the last, those songs we sing, 
A thousand mem'ries round them cling. 
But sad regrets we shall not tell — 
In careless song, we say, " Farewell." 



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THE FIVE YEARS 



REUNION SONG. 

DEDICATED TO '88. 



I. Loyal sons to thee returning, 

Amherst ! all their tribute bring. 
Every heart with ardor burning, 

Let our cheery voices ring 
As we tell again the story 

Of our happy college ways, 
When we dreamed of deeds of glory, 

And awoke — to waste our days. 

Amherst, Amherst, thine forever. 
Still we sing our fervent love. 

From thy bonds our hearts shall never 
Stray, however we may rove. 

II. Mathematics, Greek and Latin, 

All have passed beyond recall ; 
While the Lab. chairs that we sat in 

Ere we left began to fall. 
Days of ease and nights of pleasure, 

Jolly, careless, reckless boys, 
These are gone; but still we treasure 

Their bright forms mid memory's joys. 

Amherst, Amherst, throned resplendent, 
'Mid the blue surrounding hills. 

In life's burdens still attendant 

Through our hearts thy purpose thrills. 

III. And beneath the mask of beauty 

Which our senses then beguiled, 
Now we see the sterner Duty 

Thou hast taught thine every child. 
Alma Mater ! as before us 

Marshal fast the crowding years, 
May thy tender love watch o'er us, 

Nerve our hearts and calm our fears ! 

Amherst, Amherst, ever glorious. 
Brighter may thy radiance shine 

While thy sons, in life victorious, 
Ever deem their honor thine. 

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INTRODUCTORY. 

In the fall of 1884, by the Hamp stage, now fallen 
into innocuous desuetude, and the New London 
Northern, apparently tending in the same direction, one 
hundred and three undaunted Freshmen descended upon 
Amherst. From the first they were a united, prominent 
class and soon showed their kindly spirit toward the 
college by presenting President Seelye with a cane — 
supposed still to be in his possession. But of ttie varied 
succession of events that for four years kept Eighty- 
eight the leading class in college, it would be superfluous 
to speak here. Her record and prowess are the proud 
memory of every member, as they were the envy of less 
successful or favored classes. May the general facts given 
below and the letters which they supplement serve to 
remind each that his fellow-classmates have been eager, 
as he, in bearing onward the standard of Eighty-eight. 

Of the number who entered at the beginning of the 
course seventy-seven persevered to the end. The ranks 
were re-enforced at various times until the total member- 
ship rose to one hundred and twenty-two. Fifteen of 
the later matriculates finished the course, so that the 
final roster contained ninety-two names — eighty-nine 
graduates with the degree of A. B. and three special 
students ranking with the class. Two of the latter had 
taken the full four years. Of the non-graduates five 
took degrees in succeeding classes at Amherst, four 
claim Yale as their Alma Mater and one graduated at the 
University of Michigan. A few more are known to have 

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entered other colleges but their record is not complete. 
It is a noteworthy fact that no deaths occurred in 
the class during the four years of college. 

The intellectual ambition which forms the strongest 
bond for all collegians and that loyal fellowship which is 
the glory of a few classes are alike exemplified by the 
post-graduate record. More than fifty members have 
pursued further courses of study, not a few with especial 
honor to themselves and the class. Several are still 
classed as "students." 

The re-unions have shown good numbers as well as 
zeal for class and college. At the '89 commencement, 
twenty-seven members were in Amherst ; thirty-eight 
returned at triennial, and twenty-six were present in 
June last. Successful winter re-unions were held in 
New York the first two years after graduation, while that 
city was still the headquarters of many of the profes- 
sional students. Two-thirds of the men have been 
present at one or another of these meetings. It has also 
been voted to hold another re-union at Amherst in two 
years instead of waiting until 1898. 

The story of varied activity presented in the 
following pages must surely prove interesting to those 
for whom they are printed ; the record ought also to con- 
vince that possible critic, the casual reader, that Eighty- 
eight is doing her part to honor the name and fame 
of Old Amherst. 



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RECORD OF GRADUATES. 



HERMAN V. AMES, PH. D. 

Ames writes: "The fall after graduation I entered 
the School of Political Science at Columbia College and 
remained there during the year of i888-g. In i88q I 
entered the Graduate School of Harvard University, as 
a student in history and constitutional law ; received the 
degree of A. M. in 1890. During the second year of 
residence at Harvard (1890-91) I held the Ozias Goodwin 
memorial fellowship in constitutional law. I received 
the degree of Ph. D. from Harvard in 1891, my thesis 
being ' Proposed amendments to the constitution of the 
United States.' At the annual meeting of the American 
Historical Association, held at Washington, Dec. 29-31, 
1890, I read a paper on 'Amendments to the constitu- 
tion of the United States,' which has been published in 
the Papers of the American Historical Association (Vol. 
V. No. 4. G. P. Putnam's Sons.) 

In the fall of 1891 I came to Ann Arbor to enter 
upon the work of instructor in history in the University 
of Michigan. Here I have been since and here I now 
expect to remain for the present. I lead a very busy 
life but enjoy my work very much. I am not married." 

WILLIAM H. H. ANDREWS. 

Andrews, in 1888, accepted a position as teacher in 
the high school at Mattoon, 111., but was soon compelled 
by ill health to resign, and returned to Gloucester, Mass. 
The following spring he was made principal of the Lane 

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grammar school in that city, but in the fall gave up 
teaching for business life. After a year as clerk at 
the quarries of Chas. Guidet he was made book-keeper 
of the O. T. Rogers Granite Company, whose Quincy 
quarries are well known throughout New England. 
May 30, 1892 he was married to Miss Amelia Stephens 
of Lanesville (Gloucester), Mass., and settled at East 
Milton. The long strike at the quarries in the summer 
of 1892 threw him out of his position but the enforced 
vacation proved a benefit to his health. In November 
1892 he bought a grocery business at Scotland, Bridge- 
water, Mass., where he is now located. He writes 
under date of March 30th that the post-ofifice is in his 
charge ; whether the change of administration disturbs 
him does not appear. 

LEONARD F. APTHORP. 

Apthorp writes: "I regret to say that I have little 
or nothing of interest to contribute for myself — not 
enough to be called a history. I am simply working 
here in Boston in the employ of the M. Steinert & Sons 
Company, learning the piano business, and am living at 
the Norfolk House, Roxbury, Mass. I am not married." 

Apthorp lived at Northampton for some time after 
graduation. Early in 1893 he was ill for several weeks 
with rheumatism but was at work again in March. 

HARMON AUSTIN, JR. 

Austin is making the most of business opportunities 
in Warren, Ohio. He writes thus: "Upon leaving 
college I was for six months with the wholesale grocery 
firm of McComb & Ross, of Warren, O. I then 
entered the firm of Hangenberg, Pendleton & Co., 
manufacturers of engines, saw mills and general 
machinery. This firm is now organized into the 
Trumbull Manufacturing Co. of which I am secretary. 

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I am also president of the Jefferson Light and Power 
Company and manager of the Trumbull Specialty Co., 
manufacturers of specialties in tinware. I was married 
Sept. 3, 1890 to Sally Heaton Woods and have one 
daughter, born Dec. i, 1891, named Julia Heaton Austin. 
I have devoted my time largely to business, giving 
literary and church work a part of my attention." 

ASA G. BAKER. 

Baker reports as follows: "Immediately after 
leaving college I went into the editorial rooms of the G. 
& C. Merriam Company, publishers of Webster's 
Dictionary, at New Haven and joined the force at work 
revising the 'Unabridged;' stayed in New Haven until 
June 1890, when I came here to Springfield and entered 
the business office of the same company where I have 
been ever since. In August of 1890 I took a flying trip 
to England on business and saw just enough to whet 
one's appetite and make me anxious for the day when a 
clerk's salary shall be large enough to support an 
extended visit to our foreign friends. 

September 8, 1892, there was a quiet wedding at 
Kanona, Steuben Co., N. Y., Miss Lucy Cynthia Cham- 
berlain being the bride and your very obedient servant 
the groom. Warriner '88 was on hand as an usher. 
Since my marriage I've had a home of my own in a 
cosy little house, No. 6 Cornell St., where any '88 man 
will always find a welcome." 

Since the re-union a supplement announces that on 
July 24, 1893, Walton Chamberlain Baker was added to 
the Cornell Street household. He is fitting for the class 
of 1914- 

ALBERT SPRAGUE BARD, ESQ. 

Bard spent the first year after graduation at the 
Harvard Law School. From July 1889 to August 1890 

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was spent in the law office of Halsey & Briscoe, Norwich, 
Conn. In May of the latter year he was admitted to the 
bar and in the fall he returned to the Harvard Law 
School, graduating in June, 1892, with the degrees of A. 
M. and LL. B. cum laude. Since September, 1892, he has 
been with the law firm of Hornblower, Byrne & Taylor, 
45 Williams St., New York City. Unmarried. 

RALPH \V. BARTLETT, ESQ. 

Bartlett spent the first year after graduation at his 
home in North Brookfield, assisting his father, who was 
out of health. Oct. i, 1889, he began reading law with 
Henry W. King. Esq., of the firm of Rice, King & Rice, 
Worcester, Mass.; subsequently he entered the Boston 
University Law School, graduating in 1892 with a magna 
cum laude. He was admitted to the Suffolk bar in 
Boston, July 25, 1892 and the following September 
entered the office of Swift & Grime at Fall River, 
Mass., where he remained until January i, 1893. 

He then went to New York to engage in business, 
but as times were unfavorable for a start returned to 
Boston and opened a law office in the Exchange 
Building, Room 833. He has formed a business part- 
nership with Fallows, '86 but will continue the practice 
of law. He is unmarried. 

REV. CLARENCE WYATT BISPHAM. 

"Babbum" sends the following: "Upon leaving 
college I sailed at once for England where the summer 
was spent in the study of the cathedrals and especially 
their choirs. In the fall of 1888 I entered the General 
Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal 
Church in New York City. While there I became 
precentor of All Angels' Choir. I was ordained to the 
diaconate Trinity Sunday, 1891 and again went to 
England, where for the summer I had work at St. James' 

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Parish, New Brighton, Cheshire. Nov. ist, 1891, I 
became assistant minister to St. John's Parish, Wash- 
ington, D. C, having under my special charge St. John's 
Chapel; was ordained priest March, 1892, by Bishop 
Paul of Maryland. The fee simple of the building of St. 
John's Chapel was given to the members of the congre- 
gation who have just received permission from the 
diocesan convention to organize a parish to be known as 
St. Michael and All Angels'. I have been called to the 
rectorship. In addition to this I have been called to the 
position of lecturer on church music to the theological 
class of the bishop. Any member of the class of '88 
who will look me up in Washington will be assured of a 
warm welcome." 

Clarence is unmarried. 

DR. CHARLES L. BLISS. 

Bliss writes from Syria: "My experience since 
leaving our Amherst home has been a busy and a happy 
one. For three years I worked hard at the study of 
medicine in New York. I attended the New York Uni- 
versity Medical College, and received my diploma there in 
the spring of 1891. It was my fortune to receive one of 
the surgical appointments at Bellevue Hospital. I had 
scarely finished a month's work at the hospital when an 
urgent call was given me to fill the chair of anatomy in 
the Syrian Protestant College of Beirut, Syria. After 
some weeks I decided to accept the appointment. I 
resigned my position at the hospital and gave two 
months to special work in skin diseases. The following 
September I was on my way to this beautiful spot. I 
stopped at Constantinople on my wa)^ out, to pass 
a required examination before the officials of the Turkish 
government, and received my permission to practise 
medicine in Turkish dominions. 

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My work is attractive in every way. I know of 
no more beautiful scenery, and no more attractive social 
circle to ask you to visit. Amherst is well represented 
here and we shall all be glad to welcome any one of you 
that may chance to come this way." 

JOHN S. BRAYTON, JR., ESQ. 

Fall Rivkr, June 2. 
Dear Classmate — All your letters have been 
received ; please excuse my delay. Enclosed is a dollar. 
Lucy and I are both well. 

Yours truly, John S. Brayton, Jr. 
To Rev. F. L. Garfield : 

After graduating from the Harvard Law School 
"Jack" was for a time in partnership with A. J. Jennings, 
who has since become well known through the Borden 
trial. But for some time he has not been practising, 
and, beyond the above, no recent information has been 
received. 

WILLIAM L. BREWSTER, ESQ. 

Brewster spent the first three years after graduation 
at the Columbia Law School. In the summer of i8gi he 
traveled in Europe and in October of that year went 
to Portland, Ore., where he has since been practising 
law. He says nothing of free silver, but like the rest of 
the boys who have gone westward thinks that those who 
stay in the east make a great mistake. 

CHARLES A. BRECK. 

The Brick known to us in college sends a brief 
account of himself as Breck : "I began teaching in the 
fall of '88 as assistant in the high school, Augusta, 
Maine. Was obliged to give up my position in the 
middle of the year on account of overwork. In April, 1889, 

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I went to California and remained until August, i8go, 
spending most of the time in outdoor work at Santa Ana 
and Los Angeles. I resumed my position in September 
'go and taught a year ; in September, '91, entered Andover 
Theological Seminary and am now in the senior class." 

WALTER E. BUNTEN. 

"Bunt" began teaching in the fall of '88 as principal 
of one of the public schools in Saugerties, N. Y. , not far 
from his old home in Rondout. He remained there 
until June, 1890. Sometime between those dates Miss 
Sadie Voigt of South Rondout became Mrs. Bunten. 
August 3, 1890, a child was born to them. Earl Elling- 
wooD Bunten, whose claims to the class cup were 
recognized at triennial. Bunten writes further: "After 
leaving Saugerties I accepted a situation as one of the fore- 
men of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company at their 
extensive coal plant at Rondout. This company neces- 
sarily 'shuts down' in the winter, and having passed 
the civil service examination, I accepted a temporary 
position at the custom house in New York. My 
headquarters were at Matthewson & Wicker's (now 
Havermeyer & Elder's) sugar refinery ; I kept the books 
of the shipping department of that firm for the govern- 
ment. This was the time when sugar was under bond, 
owing to the McKinley tariff. 

I might to-day hold a life position with the Delaware 
and Hudson canal Co., I have not the slightest doubt — 
I have worked there every vacation to fill in spare time 
— but having tried teaching and having formed an 
attachment for it, I decided to make it my profession. 
Therefore I accepted the principalship of the South 
Rondout public school, where I taught one year, till 
July, 1892. At the end of that time, although offered an 
increase of salary, I refused to stay, having accepted a 

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position as principal of the Sinclairville Academy and 
Union School, where I am at present, in the extreme 
western county of New York, Chautauqua. I have 
a corps of five assistants and an instructress in music 
under my supervision. Here I confidently expect to 
stay, as I have met with better success than I ever 
hoped, until I am competent to take another step 
forward in the line of my chosen profession. I hold 
a college graduate's life certificate issued by the Univer- 
sity of the State of New York, authorizing me to teach 
in any public school of this state. With good will 
toward all my classmates and malice toward none, I 
remain still a member of '88." 

REV. IRVING A. BURNAP. 

Burnap studied at Hartford Theological Seminary 
from i88g to '92. In June of that year he began work as 
pastor at Monterey, Mass., and was ordained and 
installed there September 15th. He was married to 
Miss Annie Binnie of Hartford, Conn., at that city, 
June 20, 1893. 

REV. FREDERICK L. CHAPMAN. 

"Chap" attended McCormick Theological Seminary, 
Chicago, three years, graduating in 1891 as B. D. "I 
took the M. A. degree at Amherst the same year. I 
took position on the 'Interior' as associate editor, 
became managing editor, and remained such one year ; 
then bought the 'Ram's Horn,' the only non-sectarian 
religious paper of large circulation in the west. I am 
now developing that and am meeting success. 

I married Miss Louise L. Sewall of Chicago, in 1891 ; 
we have one child, a daughter, Louise, born Feb. 
15, 1892. 

Since graduation I have been crowned with no 
particular honor nor disgrace. I should be glad to see 

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any '88 man at my house, 42 Roslyn Place, Chicago, in 
winter; Lake Geneva, Wis., in summer." 

WILLIAM BRADFORD CHILD. 

Child was engaged in library work from 1888 to 
1893; until April '89 at Amherst College as assistant 
librarian, from that time to August, 1891, at Columbia 
College in a similar position, and for the remaining 
time in the library of the Newton Theological Institu- 
tion, Newton Centre, Mass. "In January, 1893 I very 
unexpectedly received a proposal to fill a sudden vacancy 
in the publishing house of Macmillan & Company, New 
York, which seemed to open such a rare opportunity for 
development that I concluded to make the change. 
Consequently I am back here in Gotham where I am 
glad to be in charge of the retail department and of the 
cataloguing of publications of Macmillan & Company, a 
position that is probably a permanent one. I am 
unmarried, so have no maiden or other names to record." 

DR. SIDNEY A. CLARK. 

From Amherst Sid. Clark went to the Harvard 
Medical School, taking the degree of M. D. in June, 
1891, and at the same time receiving an A. M. at 
Amherst. His summer vacations during this time were 
spent in hospital work in Boston. In the summer of 
1891 he settled in Northampton, in partnership with Dr. 
James Dunlap, the oldest practising physician in the 
city, where he now enjoys a very lucrative practice. 

"I was married November 5, 1891, to Miss Esther 
Avery Harding, at Worcester, by the Rev. Frank E. 
Ramsdell, Amherst '88. I joined the Massachusetts 
Medical Society at the annual meeting in June, 1892, and 
read a paper before the district society the following 
September." 

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August 25, 1B93, Dr. Clark became a proud father ; 
his daughter's name is Millicent. 

REV. WILLIAM P. CLARKE. 

"Bulgaria" Clarke writes from Samokove : "The 
fall after our graduation I entered Hartford Theological 
Seminary ; took the three years course there, graduatmg 
in May, 1891. Having previously received my appoint- 
ment as foreign missionary under the A. B. C. F. M., I 
was ordained at Hartford on May 15th. A month later 
I sailed from Boston and arrived at Samokove, Bulgaria, 
on July 8th. I found myself somewhat rusty in the use 
of the Bulgarian language but was able to take some 
classes in the Collegiate and Theological Institute here 
when the fall term opened in September. I preached 
my first regular sermon in Bulgarian when I had been 
here half a year. My time is largely taken up with 
school work; I preach occasionally here and in other 
places, and the varied duties that come to a missionary 
combine to make my life a busy one. My father (A. C. 
'54) is also located here. I continue to take the 
'Student' and always turn to the alumni notes first and 
look for '88 items. I hope to be present at the 
quindecennial." 

ZELOTES W. COOMBS. 

"Zelotes W. Coombs, unmarried. After gradua- 
tion I taught for the year 1888-9 at the Brooklyn 
Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, having work in 
arithmetic, reading and history. Hartwell, '88 was my 
fellow-teacher and chum. The year 1889-90 saw me at 
the University of Virginia as instructor in physical 
culture, taking the place vacated by Huntington '88. 
Here I studied law without, however, taking the degree. 
Since 1890 I have been at the Worcester Polytechnic 
Institute as instructor in languages." 

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GEORGE H. COREY. 

Corey writes: "Since graduation my efforts have 
been in the line of chemistry. After six months of 
post-graduate work under Professor Harris I accepted a 
position as chemist for the Bethlehem Iron Company, 
Bethlehem, Pa. After a little more than one year's stay 
there and about an equal amount of time in a commercial 
chemical laboratory in Cleveland, Ohio, I came to New 
York, where I have now completed my second year with 
the Ledoux Chemical Laboratory Company, g Cliff St. 
I hold the position of first assistant to the head chemist 
and am also a stockholder in the company." 

REV. GEORGE CORNWELL. 

Eighty-eight received one member from China and 
has returned another ; Cornwell writes from Chefoo : 
"I graduated from Union Theological Seminary in 'gi 
and was one of the commencement speakers. June ii, 
i8gi, I was married to Miss Mary W. Mead of York- 
town, N. Y. ; spent the year 'g2 as pastor of the 
Presbyterian church in Poundridge, N. Y. An Easter 
boy came into our home April 17, i8g2. I was appointed 
by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian 
Church to Chefoo, China, and sailed for that place in the 
fall of i8g2. Here I am pegging away at Chinese and 
chop sticks ; if any of my classmates come this way they 
must not pass us by." 

REV. J. ROMEYN DANFORTH, JR. 

Danforth writes: "In the fall of '88 I entered the 
Divinity School at Yale. Three delightful years were 
spent there, each pleasanter and richer in study than the 
last. During the summer between middle and senior 
years I tried my new-fledged wings in western Nebraska. 
That was very good — for me. In June, i8gi, I received 
the degree of B. D. from Yale and an A. M. fromAmherst. 

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This is an item of intense interest to all registrars. In 
May i8gi I sailed for Europe and spent a year in travel 
and study in Holland, Belgium and Germany. Most of 
my time was spent at Liege, Belgium and Marburg, 
Germany. May, 1892, found me back in dear old 
America and in June I was called to be pastor of the 
Congregational church in Mystic, Conn. July ist I 
settled there and on October 25th I was ordained and 
installed. Mystic is a beautiful place of four thousand 
inhabitants, and I am very happy in my work. The 
clause in our secretary's letter regarding wife and 
children does not apply to me. 'There are no snakes 
in Ireland.' Success to every member of Eighty-eight!" 
We have heard before of a general connection 
between Eve and the serpent, but Danforth seems to 
make out a close relationship ; does this come from 
theological study ? 

WILLIAM E. DAVIDSON. 

"The obelisk" has been in business in the west 
since leaving college, and is growing up with the 
country. He first went to Neligh, Neb., as assistant 
cashier of the Merchants' Bank of that place. In 
December, '89, he was promoted to be cashier, but resigned 
the following March to accept the office of treasurer 
of the Kearney and Black Hills Railroad. January i, 
1893, he resigned to return as vice-president of the 
Merchants' Bank of Neligh, where he is at present 
located. 

He was married July 14, 1892, to Miss Gertrude 
Genevra Goodell of Kearney, Neb. 

ARTHUR v. DAVIS. 

"Little Dave" was somewhat hampered, at first, in 
Pittsburgh by his Boston accent but he has now taken 
Jim Ewing's place as a shouter for the Smoky City; Jim's 

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affections are transferred to New York. Davis writes : 
"Immediately after graduation I became connected with 
The Pittsburgh Reduction Co., manufacturers of pure 
aluminum and have continued with them ever since. 
'Whatever promotions, honors or successes' have come 
to me have all come as our business has grown and as I 
have been able to take a more prominent part in the 
management of the same. I hardly know what to 
consider my present position. Technically speaking I 
believe I am general superintendent and assistant 
general manager of the company. As a matter of fact I 
devote my time to a general management of the 
business, and in an official way run the works. This 
latter department, however, which at first took all my 
time has lately drifted out of my hands, except that 
I now retain an oversight of the production as a part of 
my general supervision of the business. 

In answer to your question as to whether I am 
married would say that I have not entered the 
matrimonial yoke. Perhaps it is needless to add that I 
have no children, and therefore cannot give dates of 
birth." 

HORACE W. DICKERMAN. 

Dickerman was married May 23, 1888, at Chicago, 
to Miss Mary Luella Hill. From one month after 
graduation up to the present time he has been secretary 
of the American Desk and Seating Company, Wabash 
Ave., Chicago; for the last two years he has been 
treasurer also. Since January 22, 1893, Donald Horace 
Dickerman has resided at Evanston, where his father 
has a pleasant home close to the grounds of the 
Northwestern University. 

CHARLES H. EDWARDS. 

Charlie Edwards has been connected with the 
college much of the time since graduation. He writes : 

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"My first year out of college was spent in post-graduate 
study at the chemical laboratory in Amherst, where the 
following year I became assistant. The next two years 
(1890-92) I was private tutor in chemistry in Pittsburgh, 
Pa., and with the Marshall Foundry and Construction 
Co., of that city; while in Pittsburgh it was my good 
fortune to lead the glee club of the Western University 
of Pennsylvania; the president is an Amherst man, and 
the glee club sings all Amherst songs. Since Nov., '92, I 
have been assistant in the laboratory here at Amherst." 
Edwards goes this fall to Gottingen, Germany. 
His address remains Amherst, Mass. 

DR. JAMES EWING. 

Jim has spent most of the five years in New York 
City, as the following shows: "Two or three of us, 
after three years spent at the New York College of 
Physicians and Surgeons, were pauperized and pre- 
sented with M. D's. Since then we have been posing 
as physicians of extraordinary experience in public 
institutions, cutting and dosing, or watching the 
unhindered course of disease. Part of the year 'gi I 
spent in a surgical capacity at West Penn Hospital, 
Pittsburgh, Pa. It may be said that the connection 
was rather more to my advantage than to the welfare of 
the patrons of the institution. However, the institution 
still lives, so do I, and quite a number of the patrons are 
living too. From Jan. i, '92, until now, my residence 
has been at Roosevelt Hospital, New York City. My 
only plans for the future are to open an office and let the 
people get at me, and keep in connection with the 
paternal exchequer. 

Nothing further occurs to me as worth mention. I 
am an honorary church member, but haven't had time 
for clubs," 

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JAMES A. FAIRLEY. 

Fairley writes: ''For two years after graduation I 
taught a private school in Millerton, N. Y. 

For the remaining three years I have been teaching 
in the Peoria High School; rhetoric the first year, 
history and English literature the last two. Next fall I 
expect to enter either Andover or Union Theological 
Seminary. I am not married." 

DR. EDWARD F. GAGE. 

Gage spent the summer of 1888 at Springfield in 
preparation for work as a physical director in the Y. M. 
C. A. and has been engaged in that work ever since, for 
the first two years giving his whole time to it and later 
making it supplementary to a medical course. For the 
season 1888-9 ^e was director of the gymnasium at New 
Britain, Conn., and the next year was physical director 
and assistant secretary of the Y. M. C. A. at Fort 
Wayne, Ind. He gave up this position in the fall of 
1890 to enter the Harvard Medical School. During the 
three years at Cambridge he was very busy with 
evening instruction in various Y. M. C. A. gymnasia in 
the neighborhood of Boston and also devoted his 
vacations to work or study in the same line. In the 
summer of '91 he was general secretary of the Somerville 
Y. M. C. A., and he has had classes at Natick, Lynn, 
South Framingham, Jamaica Plains and Salem. In 
June ('93) he received an M. D. at Harvard and A. M. at 
Amherst, and was made a fellow of the Massachusetts 
Medical Association. He settled for the summer at 
Winthrop Beach, Mass., whence he writes as follows : 
"I began practice here July i, and have been more than 
satisfied with results to date. I expect to practise in or 
near Boston for at least two years while I am doing 
some post-graduate work in some of the hospitals. I 

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also expect to do a limited amount of teaching in 
physical culture, as I may yet decide to follow that line." 

Gage was married October 17, 1888 to Miss Lura 
W. Nelson of Amherst. They have three children ; 
Marion, born at Fort Wayne, Ind., November 4, '89; 
Roland D., born at Boston, March 5, 1891, and Horace 
N., born at Boston, November 15, 1892. 

Gage's address is now changed to 209 Huntington 
Ave., Boston, Mass. 

REV. FRANK L. GARFIELD. 

After gathering the other material for these reports, 
Garfield adds his own letter : " The fall of '88 found me 
in the beautiful and classic city of Pittsburgh, acting as 
instructor in English at the Shady Side Academy, one of 
the leading preparatory schools in western Pennsylvania, 
at that time just entering upon its sixth year. It is 
a good school however and an evidence that the strong 
commercial spirit of this great centre of industry is 
beginning to give way to the spirit of culture. 

I enjoyed my year's work and probably profited by 
it more than did my pupils. I learned as I never knew 
before the meaning of the word 'provincialism,' not 
alone from what I observed in the customs and dialect 
of the natives, but now and then from certain peculiar- 
ities discovered in myself which marked me as *a 
Yankee.' 

In the fall of '89 I entered Yale Divinity School, and 
received my B. D. in due course in May, '92. I began 
preaching at Feeding Hills the following August, and 
was ordained pastor of the Congregational church in 
that place February 15, 1893. 

October 11, 1892, I was married at Worcester to Miss 
Sadie K. Chandler. Soon after we took possession of 
the parsonage, where we are now keeping house, and 
where any '88 Amherst man, or '88 Mt. Holyoke girl 
may be sure of a warm welcome." 



REV. LINCOLN B. GOODRICH. 

"Line" had just married a wife and could not come 
to the quinquennial, but he sends the following : "The 
story of my life since graduation is short. I taught for 
two years in the public schools of Plainfield, N. J.; the 
first year as head of the preparatory department ; the 
second as acting principal, having charge of all the 
public schools of the city. The last three years have 
been spent in the Yale Divinity School from which 
I graduated in May, having the good fortune to be one 
of the commencement speakers." 

Goodrich was married June ig, 1893, to Miss 
Harriet P. Burnett, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Burnett, 
of Brooklyn, N. Y., and ten days later was ordained and 
installed pastor of the Congregational church at Bound 
Brook, N. J. 

WILLIAM D. GOODWIN. 

W. D. Goodwin now has a son A. P. He writes : 
"I came to Pittsfield in the fall of '88 as assistant 
principal of the high school, and am still holding that 
position. Was married at Putnam, Conn., July 29, 
1891, to Miss Minnie R. Prentice, Wellesley '89. 
August 14, 1892, a son was born to us, whose name is 
Arthur Prentice Goodwin." 

WILLIAM B. GREENOUGH, ESQ. 

Greenough writes: "After being graduated from 
Amherst in '88 I took a brief trip abroad in the British 
Isles and on the Continent. In October, 1888, entered 
Yale University, taking studies in the theological and 
post-graduate departments and attending law lectures. 

In October, i88g, I entered the Boston University 
Law School at Boston, but after a few weeks stay was 
obliged to leave on account of ill health and in the 
following January (1890) was ordered south by my 

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physicians. After traveling somewhat in the south I 
entered the Law School of the University of South 
Carolina, April i, 1890, from which I was graduated in 
June, 1891, with the degree of LL. B., being chosen one 
of the representatives of the law school on the com- 
mencement stage ; was admitted to practice in the courts 
of the state of South Carolina by the Supreme Court 
June, 1891. I returned to Amherst to the '88 triennial 
and received the degree of M. A. 

In July, 1891, I removed to Providence, Rhode 
Island, and to meet the requirements of admission to the 
bar of Rhode Island, continued the study of law in the 
office of Nicholas Van Slyck, city solicitor of the city of 
Providence. I was admitted to practice in the courts 
of Rhode Island in February, 1892. March i, I formed 
a CO partnership for the practice of law with Percy 
D. Smith, under the firm name of Smith & 
Greenough." 

Greenough was married Sept. 27, 1893, to Miss 
Eliza S. Clark, daughter of the late Col. W. S. Clark, at 
Newton, Mass. 

SHATTUCK O. HARTWELL. 

Hartwell has spent the five years since graduation 
in teaching and expects to continue in the same work. 
For the first year Coombs and he were companions 
in misery at the Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. In the fall of '89 he succeeded 
Richards '85, as principal of the high school at 
Kalamazoo, where he has since remained. For the 
coming year he has supervision of the grammar school 
also. He is not yet married but hopes to join the 
matrimonial division of the class before the end of 
another year, being engaged to Miss Kate W. Hitchcock, 
of Kalamazoo, sister of Hitchcock '82. 

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DR. ROBERT W. HASTINGS. 

Hastings writes from the City Hospital, Boston : 
"I spent the first year after leaving college as assistant 
in Henry L. Coar's preparatory school for college, 
in Springfield. The next year I decided to study 
medicine and have since been connected with the 
Harvard Medical School. For three years I lived at 
'Hotel d'Amherst,' 165 W. Canton St., Boston, where 
the presence of from eight to twelve Amherst men made 
a very pleasant home. July i, 1892, I took the position 
of interne of the Boston Lunatic Hospital at Austin 
Farm, Dorchester. I remained there until January i, 
1893, acting at the same time as externe of the Boston 
City Hospital. This last was a portion of my eighteen 
months service as house officer of this hospital to which 
I secured the appointment in the competitive examina- 
tions held in May, 1892. 

Since January first I have been living here in the 
hospital as junior in the first medical service. Here I 
shall remain till January i, 1894, I received the degrees 
of M. D., cum laude and M. A. from Harvard last June, 
('93). My engagement to Miss Helen S. Gay, of Boston, 
was announced about the middle of June." 

ARTHUR M. HEARD. 

He writes : ' ' With the vision of wealth galore within 
easy grasp, I came west — to Kansas — in the fall of '88 
and since that time have been located at Arkansas City, 
a border town of ten thousand busy people; best 
remembered as the great outfitting point from which 
the rush to the Oklahoma lands was made in 1889. The 
first year after graduation was spent in the office of 
a loan company ; since that time I have been engaged in 
the banking business. Perhaps it is needless to add 
that my vision of rapidly acquired wealth Was but a 

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fanc3'; that the 'boom' had collapsed before I reached 
'the land of promise.' Am unmarried and have no 
immediate prospects." 

Heard gave up the position at Arkansas City in 
June and returned east. Soon after he left, the bank 
with which he had been connected failed, and in July he 
was appointed associate receiver. A little later he was 
commissioned as special national bank examiner and is 
now in charge of the suspended Oklahoma National 
Bank, Oklahoma City. 

His address remains Arkansas City. He says : 
"Richard Harding Davis in his 'The West from a Car 
Window' says some very disagreeable things about 
Oklahoma, but, for myself, I feel very kindly toward 
the place." 

ELEAZER O. HOPKINS. 

Hopkins has spent the five years in teaching. His 
first two terms were at South Yarmouth, Mass., whence 
he went to Hollis, N. H., as principal of the high school. 
In the fall of i8go he accepted the principalship of 
the high school in South Hadley, Mass., and has since 
remained there. August 27, 1890, he was married 
to Miss Bessie L. Lyford, of Somerville, Mass. In the 
year 1891-92 he had a severe illness from typhoid fever, 
but has now recovered his strength. 

AUGUSTUS S. HOUGHTON, ESQ. 

"Gus" and Clarence Houghton are practising law 
together in New York. The former writes: "After 
leaving college I went to New Berne, N. C, and studied 
law with my uncle. Judge Seymour, of the United States 
District Court. I took my examination for admission to 
the North Carolina bar at Raleigh. After successfully 
passing it I loafed in the south till about June first 
— though I was supposed to be ready for practice. I 

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did make seven dollars before leaving there. I came to 
New York and from June, 1890, to October i, 1892, 
I was a clerk in the office of Root & Clarke, being 
admitted to the New York bar in April. In October, 
1892, the firm of C. S. & A. S. Houghton burst upon the 
community, and here I have been ever since. I also 
hold the position of secretary of the Oscawana and 
Cornell Rail Road Company, a line that— when built — 
will vie with the Reading and Whiskey Trust in making 
and unmaking the millionaires of its day." 

CLARENCE S. HOUGHTON, ESQ. 

Clarence reports: "In the fall of '88 I entered the 
Columbia Law School where I remained one year. The 
following summer I went into the law office of C. F. 
Bostwick, 237 Broadway, and under his direction con- 
tinued my studies until I was admitted to the New York 
bar in the first department in the fall of 1890. For 
a year following my admission I occupied the position of 
managing clerk in a law firm at 62 Wall Street, In 
January, 1892, I started out for myself, and in October 
of the same year entered into partnership with my 
cousin under the firm name of C. S. & A. S. Houghton. 
My home address is 301 West 88th St., New York City." 

ELLERY C. HUNTINGTON. 

Ellery writes : "It scarcely seems possible that our 
class has five years of graduate history! But as I count 
it over, one year at Charlottesville, in charge of the 
gymnasium of the University of Virginia, and one, two, 
three, four years here in the University of Nashville, 
teaching Greek and beating time with the roll book 
in my hand, as 'Old Doc' used to do, for the Gym. 
classes to march by, I find nothing lacking to place our 
quinquiennial re-union in June. 

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The first of June one year ago I was married to 
Miss Susie B. Tucker, of Sewanee, Tenn., and since the 
nth of March there has been an EUery Channing 
Huntington, Jr., as prospective candidate for an Amherst 
freshman class. The quinquiennial re-union marks the 
first year that I have not returned to Amherst. I should 
have loved dearly to look upon the faces that gathered 
about the board on that occasion and say prosit to the 
hearty toasts drunk to Old Amherst and Eighty-eight." 

FREDERIC S. HYDE. 

Fred Hyde writes: "Right after graduating I left 
this country for Beirut, Syria, to accept an appointment 
to teach for three years in the Syrian Protestant College. 
My work was in the English department of the academic 
course, and included English grammar, composition, 
conversation, rhetoric and literature, besides an elemen- 
tary course in 'Doc's ology' and physical geography. 
In the long summer vacations I traveled in the Lebanon, 
in Palestine, beyond Jordan, as well as in Lower Egypt. 
I also went by camel for six days across the desert to the 
oasis of the Kharga, a place seldom visited by civilized 
man. My engagement at the college being up, I spent 
another year in Beirut, tutoring and studying Hebrew. 
In the summer of 1892 I arrived in New York, and have 
now completed the middle year at Union Theological 
Seminary." 

REV. GEORGE M. HYDE. 

George Hyde has settled in Minneapolis, and sends 
the following: "Since the memorable year 1888, A. D. 
— until the present year — I have done nothing but study 
and read and sight-see. After a full course of theology 
and some post-graduate work at Yale, I went abroad for 
six months, pursuing certain lines of work and observa- 
tion which I felt would supplement my studies at 

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Amherst and Yale. From the day of graduation at Yale 
I had determined to teach rather than preach. So after 
my sojourn in Parisian art galleries and climbs among 
the Roman ruins, I made a bee line for Minneapolis 
to secure some educational job. After a few months 
of impatient waiting, I was lucky in receiving my 
present appointment in the Minneapolis high school. 
My hobby, not to say specialty, is English literature, 
and incidentally I devote considerable attention to 
Latin. I am still a bachelor." 

ALBERT H. JACKSON, ESQ. 

In July, '88, Jackson began the study of law in the 
office of McMillan, Gluck, Pooley & Depew, Buffalo, N. 
Y. He was admitted to the bar on the sixth of June, 
i8go, and in September became chief clerk for the above 
firm, having opportunity also for private practice. He 
is unmarried. 

DR. HAROLD H. JACOBS. 

Most of the Ohio boys have remained at their 
old homes. Jacobs is still at Akron, and writes thus : 
"In September, '88, I entered the Medical College 
of Ohio, at Cincinnati ; graduating from that institution 
in March, '91, I went immediately into practice, as 
a partner of my father, at Akron, Ohio ; joined the First 
Congregational church of this place in 1888 and changed 
the middle initial of my name to ' H,' my mother's family 
name, so the boys will no longer know H. L. Jacobs, 
but H. H. Jacobs. I was married September 2, 1891, 
to Miss Lizzie T. Griffin, of Akron, and on the 12th of 
September, 1892, a daughter, Hulda G. Jacobs, was 
born to us. Not to be too modest I can say that I am 
being quite successful in my chosen line of work ; am 
one of the two surgeons of the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. 
and the Valley R. R., and one of the three visiting 
surgeons of the Akron City Hospital." 

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DR. FRED B. JEWETT. 

Jewett spent three years at the Harvard Medical 
School, graduating in i8gi. From the spring of 'gi 
until July, '92, he was located at the State Hospital, 
Tewksbury, Mass., at first as interne and finally as 
second assistant physician. Later he settled in Dalton, 
Mass. 

In December, 1891, Miss Minnie Gould, of Taunton, 
became Mrs. Jewett, and in the following November a 
son entered the family. Since May of this year Jewett 
has been settled at 190 W. Springfield St., Boston. 

LUCIUS E. JUDSON, ESQ. 

"Jud's" arm must have completely recovered ; he 
finds time to pen the following from the office of |. 
L. Washburn, Chamber of Commerce Building, Duluth : 
"In the fall of 1888, I entered Columbia Law School for 
three reasons: (i) It was Columbia; (2) It was in New 
York ; (3) New York wanted me to come there. Being 
saturated with the rural simplicity and having that 
rustic shyness resulting from four studious years at 
Amherst, I was attracted by the allurements of city life. 

During my three years course at the law school, I 
frequently attended recitations and other 'things' 
connected with the institution (I deem this an interest- 
ing fact). Of course I also attended a few other things, 
for in New York other things beside the law school are 
constantly occurring. 

In May, 1890, I was admitted to the New York bar, 
which made me feel so delighted that I imagined I 
was in Northampton after a college victory. In June, 
1891, I graduated from the law school, to-wit, received a 
very large diploma. The dignified suavity of Bill 
Smith, the comprehensive, infatuating smile of Clarence 
Houghton and the general congeniahty of George 

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Tenney were sources of pleasure to me during the few 
moments I could snatch from that noblest of all occupa- 
tions, the pursuit of learning. In the fall of 1891 I 
came to Duluth, having been informed that the north- 
west really needed a hustler. After much worry I was 
admitted to the Minnesota bar; another diploma. Am 
now doing modestly well. Not a single client has 
rushed in since I have been writing this. No one as yet 
has any inchoate right of dower in my estates." 

Since the above, a shorter but quite as enthusiastic 
letter has been received, announcing Judson's marriage. 
Miss Sarah L. Kreps, of Allegheny, Pa., became Mrs. 
Judson October 17, 1893. 

REV. DAVID L. KEBBE. 

Kebbe writes from Southwick, Mass.: "In the fall 
of '88 with quite a number of my classmates I entered 
Yale Divinity School. The following summer I spent 
taking charge of a small church at Lunenburg, Vermont. 
The next fall again found me a theologue. The summer 
of '90 was spent in home missionary work in western 
Nebraska at Lamar. Here I preached at two sod school 
houses to mixed congregations. It was a good exper- 
ience and I learned to sympathize with the poor people 
there and found many good friends among them. 

The fact that the town bordered upon Colorado and 
also that my old friend Danforth was only fifty miles 
north at Ogalala, led us both to plan for a trip to 
Denver and Pike's Peak, upon whose summit we 
spent the last night but one in July. That was a 
week greatly enjoyed. 

In June, '91, Yale University gave me the degree of 
B. D. and Amherst College also pronounced me a master 
of arts. Since my graduation from the seminary I have 
been a member of the post-graduate class. 



In November, 1890, while in the senior class I 
began to preach at South wick, and on the 17th of June, 
'92, I was ordained and installed pastor of the Congrega- 
tional church of Southwick. During this time God has 
given me some marks of His favor and has aided in His 
work. Thirty-nine have joined the church and 
some of these have become very faithful workers. A 
good work has also been done in the line of temperance 
and law-enforcement. 

No, I am not married yet but I have a large 
parsonage and I shall be glad to join my classmates who 
seem to a lonely bachelor to be so happy and contented." 

WALLACE M. LEONARD 

Leonard writes: "Immediately after the launch I 
embraced pedagogy for poverty's sake, and spent the 
first summer trying for schools I didn't get. In 
September I went to London, England, to teach in 
a college for the blind, remaining there two years. 
From every point of view I count the trip a success. 
Vacations gave me opportunity to travel and furnished a 
list of episodes such as we are liable to hear from 
returned tramps. On a steamer off the west coast of 
Scotland I met John Miller and learned from him that 
Hyde had been seen by Prest playing an organ in some 
town in Asia Minor, and that Marsh was in Ceylon. 
This new knowledge of '88's topographical distribution 
made me feel nearer home. In the course of two years, 
I gave half work and half play a faithful trial, and, 
though very pleasant while it lasted, I found that it led 
to no tangible result. This line of thought was Undoubt- 
edly started by my becoming engaged while in London 
to a young lady from New England. 

In Sept., 1890, I returned to the only real country 
on earth and began over again, occupying a humble 

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position in the publishing house of Estes & Lauriat, 
Boston. The income on which I lived would discourage 
a foreign missionary. The next fifteen months were 
wholly uneventful. In January, 1892, I transferred my 
talents and interest to the publishing business of P. 
Blakiston, Son & Co., Philadelphia, where I am at 
present. In October of that year I was married in 
Boston to Miss Emery, of Keene, N. H., and have since 
lived in Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia. 

I have attained to just as many honors and degrees 
as I ever expected. I have been a rolling stone, spend- 
ing these five years in different cities of two countries, 
losing track of persons and events in a manner 
suggestive of exile. Since reaching a definite abode I 
have had the pleasure of meeting a good many Amherst 
men, some from '88." 

LOUIS W. MC LENNAN. 

"Mac" has been in the banking business in the west 
ever since leaving college, for three years as cashier of 
the State Savings Association, Ellsworth, Kansas, He 
went from there to the South Omaha National Bank, 
South Omaha, Neb. He has now a half interest in the 
Citizens' Bank, of Afton, Iowa, with position as cashier. 
He says : " My experiences have been somewhat check- 
ered, as I believe the first years are for every man who 
follows banking. Financially I have been fairly 
successful." 

McLennan was married June 5, 1890, to Miss Lulu 
I. Wright, of Hazleton, Pa. They have one son, 
Kenneth, born September 8, 1892. During the session 
of the Kansas legislature in 1888-9 Mac was journal 
clerk. 

REV. EDWARD LESTER MARSH. 

Lester Marsh writes: "In September, 1888, I 
entered Yale Divinity School and studied there three 

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years. In my class were thirteen Amherst men from the 
classes '84-'88. This made the life there very pleasant 
indeed. Little joined the class in a year after a separa- 
tion from us of two years. I enjoyed my whole 
theological course. The friendships formed were 
delightful, the studies were broad and well taught, and 
the whole atmosphere of the university was exhilarating. 

In May, '8g, I went with Whiting and Sam Brooks 
"out west" to preach. We went to Washington and 
Chicago together and there we separated. I preached 
my maiden sermon on the day I was 24 years old, May 
19, i88g, at Silver Creek, Nebraska. I remained at that 
place until the first of September. 

One incident I must relate. Sam Brooks came 
to see me on his way home. He was then very unwell. 
I urged him to remain with me but he was anxious 
to push on homeward. I went up to Columbus, 
Nebraska, with him. There he had to take his bed at a 
hotel. I tried to persuade him to return with me but in 
vain ; he went on to Elgin, Nebraska, to see Seymour, 
and there died. The morning he left me he arose better 
than for several days before. If he had only waited it 
might have been different. 

At the close of my second year at Yale, I was put in 
charge of New Lebanon mission connected with the 
Center church. New Haven. I retained this position 
until my graduation. In consequence of overwork I had 
to take a quiet year, which I found at Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary. In December of '91, I was called to 
Yarmouth, Mass., which is a quiet, comfortable, old-fash- 
ioned sea town. My people are much more kind than I 
deserve. My church building is well situated and is more 
beautiful than many in the country. I am somewhat 
isolated but I keep busy and therefore contented. 

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I am a plain 'country parson' trying to do some- 
thing for the good of the world with more success than 
I ever expected and many more blessings than I 
anticipated." 

Since the above was put in type a second letter 
announces Marsh's engagment to Miss Mary E. Jenkins 
of West Barnstable, Mass. 

WILLIAM D. MARSH. 

Billy Marsh sailed from New York for Ceylon, 
in the fall of '88 to teach in Jaffna College. He expected 
to stay three years, but ill health compelled his return 
in the summer of 1890. The next year was spent at 
Amherst; in September, 1891, he began post-graduate 
work in science at Yale, remaining there until December, 
1892. This year he has been at home in Amherst, 
engaged in literary work, but is this fall to begin 
preparation for the ministry at Boston University. He 
is not married. 

CHARLES W. MARSHALL. 

Marshall has been a very successful teacher. He 
is now at New Britian, Conn., teaching science in the 
high school. He wrote in the spring from Holliston : 
"In July, '88, I was awarded a silver medal by the 
American Protective Tariff League for a 'meritorious 
essay on an assigned subject.' This was given as 
an 'honorable mention' in a competition open to seniors 
of American colleges. Nineteen colleges were repre- 
sented. 

I began to skirmish for schools and after a long 
series of failures, was elected in the fall of '88, principal 
(I might also add, assistant and janitor) of the Kingston, 
R. I. Academy, which name, however, is a gross libel on 
the truth. Here I wrestled with all ages from five to 
seventeen and colors from white to black. After eight 
weeks of the 'blues,' was elected principal of the 

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Wilton, N. H.. high school, where I remained two years. 
My success with this school gave me an unsought 
election as principal of the Hampstead, N. H., Academy, 
which, however, was declined, and Holliston has been 
the scene of my efforts for three years. During this 
time we have changed the course of study, and have 
fitted for such colleges as Amherst, Brown, Smith and 
the Institute of Technology. 

On July 29, 1 891, I was married to Miss Edith 
M. Gott, of Rockport, Mass., and the first anniversary 
of our marriage was celebrated by the advent of a 
daughter, Helen Agnes, who will always shout for '88." 

JOHN H. MILLER. 

Miller spent the first year after graduation at Yale, in 
the study of philosophy and political economy. In the 
summer of '89 he traveled in Europe; since then has 
been in the employ of the Inland Oil Company, at 
Cincinnati, Ohio, being made assistant secretary in i8gi. 
He writes that he has neither married nor gone into 
politics and so has little to report. 

WALLACE R. MONTAGUE. 

Montague writes: "My career since leaving 
college has not been marked by any great honor or 
success. In the fall of '88 I entered the service of 
a bank in Columbus, Wis., remaining a few months. In 
March, 1889, became identified with the La Crosse 
Cracker Company, being elected secretary and treasurer, 
which position I am still holding. As the business has 
since more than doubled, a share of the credit for 
the success falls upon the secretary, who has been the 
virtual manager. 

In the fall of 1892 I was elected treasurer of the 
Manufacturers & Jobbers' Union, of La Crosse. In 

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January, 1893, was elected a director of the Wallis 
Carriage Company, of this city, a large firm doing 
business from the Mississippi river west to the Pacific, 
and at the directors' meeting in March following was 
elected treasurer. Am also connected with some of the 
literary and social clubs of the city. I am not married." 

REV. WARREN J. MOULTON. 

In the spring Moulton wrote : "For two years after 
leaving college I taught in Mr. Leal's school in Plain- 
field, N. J. This is a private school which fits for 
college and business. In the fall of '90 I entered 
Yale Divinity School and if nothing happens hope to 
secure my B. D. this year. I am planning to attend the 
quinquiennial if all goes well." 

Nothing did happen — outside of the usual programme 
of Amherst men at Yale. Moulton was one of the 
commencement speakers at the Divinity School and 
came to Amherst in June, honored not only by a B. D. but 
as the recipient of the Hooker prize fellowship, which 
has fallen to at least five Amherst men in succession. 
This provides for a 5'ear of post-graduate work at Yale 
and a second year abroad. Moulton also received an 
A. M. at Amherst. 

DR. WILLIAM B. NOYES. 

Noyes wrote from Vienna, in May: "I am now 
finishing my preparatory work in medical lines, and 
expect to come home and start in practice in New York 
or vicinity in the fall. My first three years after the 
graduation were spent in the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, New York City. I was traveling in Europe 
in the summers of 1888 and 1890. I received a hospital 
appointment in the Seney Hospital in 1891, but spent 
several months in Berlin before starting work there. In 

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the fall of 1892 I came back to Berlin, and spent the 
winter working on nervous diseases. 

Since spring term began I have been in Vienna and 
find the life very pleasant and the work profitable. But 
my prospects for seeing the '88 quinquiennial re-union 
or the other American event, the world's fair, I fear are 
slight." 

JOHN E. OLDHAM. 

Oldham writes: "Since graduation my life has 
been burdened with but few honors and there is little to 
relate. In August, 1888, I entered the employ of Leach, 
Shewell & Sanborn, publishers, and went to Chicago 
where I remained one year. Returning to Boston the 
following summer, I traveled in New England for that 
firm for a few months. Oct. i, 1889, I entered the 
employ of N. W. Harris & Co., investment bankers, and 
have remained with them ever since. My home address 
is Wellesley Hills." 

At commencement time John was receiving 
congratulations ; his engagement to Miss Harriet E. 
Holden, of Springfield, a graduate of Smith college, was 
just announced. 

ARTHUR D. OSBORNE. 

Our Freshman senator writes : "Immediately after 
graduation I sailed for Europe in Professor Richardson's 
party, where we spent about three months. Returning 
home I took a course in conversational French and 
German at the Berlitz school in Boston, and an 
additional course at the Amherst Summer School, where 
I also taught Latin. The next year ('89-90) I taught 
French, German and Latin at the Milwaukee (Wis.) 
Academy. Returning to New England, I was married to 
Miss Lilian H. Baker, of Chelsea, Mass., June 26, 1890. I 
spent my wedding tour in revisiting the scenes I had 

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already visited in company with Professor Richardson. 
* * * * I was the senior member of the firm of 
Osborne & Keay, hay and grain, 30 Broad St., Boston, 
until the firm dissolved in January, 1892. At present I 
am with the firm of Sampson, Murdock & Co., directory 
publishers, 155 Franklin St., Boston." 

MARION M. PALMER, ESQ. 

Palmer was at the June re-union, but has sent 
no account of himself for the class book. He read law 
after graduation in an office at Delhi, N. Y., and since 
his admission to the bar has been practising in that 
town. He is unmarried. 

PROF. WILLIAM F. PEIRCE. 

Peirce writes : ' ' During the year '88-8g I was in busi- 
ness with my father, in Springfield, Mass. In September, 
'89, I entered the graduate school of Cornell University 
and remained there one 5^ear, doing work in philosophy 
and economics. I then accepted a position as teacher of 
mental science and history in a preparatory school in 
Massachusetts and remained there until March, '92, 
when I went to Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, as 
substitute for the professor of psychology and pedagogy 
in that institution. In June, '92, I was elected to a 
permanent professorship there, that of philosophy and 
political science, but resigned to accept the Spencer and 
Wolfe professorship of mental and moral philosophy in 
Kenyon college, Gambier, Ohio, where I am at present. 
I took my M. A. from old Amherst in '92. 

I was married on June 18, 1891, to Miss Louise 
Stephens Fagan, of Hackettstown, New Jersey. Miss 
Fagan was a graduate of Vassar, '88, and took her M. A. 
from that college in '91. 

I should add that I am a candidate for priest's orders 
in the diocese of Ohio, although I shall remain in my 
present profession of teaching." 

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WILI.SON H. PERINK. 

Ferine is still a camera fiend. Hartwell met him at 
Chicago in August, rushing about Jackson Park to 
secure as many pictures as possible on a one-day's 
license. Rewrites from Kansas city: "There is very 
little to tell about myself since leaving Amherst. I 
came to Kansas City in August, 1888, and entered the 
firm of Ferine & Hall, real estate, the same consisting of 
my brother and John Hall, '86. The ist of January, 
iSSg, I entered the service of the American National 
Bank, and have been with them ever since ; have been 
advanced a number of times and am now holding 
the position of city teller. Am not married." 

PAUL C. PHILLIPS. 

"Shorty" Fhillips has been in Y. M. C. A. work, in 
the athletic department, continuously since gradua- 
tion. The summer of '88 was spent at the training 
school in Springfield, Mass. For three years from 
September, 1888, he held the position of physical 
director in the Y. M. C. A. at Kansas City, Mo. In 
September, 1892, he took a similar post in Louisville, 
Ky., where he remained until the next July. The 
summer of '92 was spent in the same kind of work 
at summer institutes in Wisconsin and Tennessee. 
Since September i, 1892, he has been in charge of the 
physical department of the Young Men's Institute of Y. 
M. C. A., 222 Bowery, New York City. He has been 
studying medicine in the meantime at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. 

ARTHUR H. PIERCE. 

"Little Pierce," after representing the class most 
honorably on the Faculty, went to Harvard University for 
further study and expects to remain there another year. 
He writes from Cambridge : "Your appeal for informa- 

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tion reminds me very strongly of the once famous cry of 
Jim Ewing — 'Give me a dollar fer the Y. M. C. A.' — 
and like that is irresistible. The story you ask for is not 
a very long or a very interesting one, but I want to see 
the letters from the other '88 boys, and so I'll put in 
my bit. 

As you probably know, my first year after gradua- 
tion was spent at Amherst in work upon mathematics 
and philosophy. Then for two years, '93 and '94 
helped me to learn somewhat the art of teaching, while 
I was Walker Instructor. I was the last of the list. No 
more is there any Walker Instructor, and never again 
will the freshmen be tortured by being made the 
subjects of pedagogical experiments. It was a magnifi- 
cent change, as any one who knows of Professor Olds 
and his work will heartily testify. Those were pleasant 
years there and I shall never forget them. 

In the fall of '91 I came here to Harvard to study 
psychology and philosophy. In June, '92, I received 
from the university the degree of A. M. and was 
fortunate enough to receive an appointment to a Morgan 
fellowship for the next year. 

The only published index of my activity here is 
a joint article in the American Journal of Psychology 
for August, 1892, on 'Experimental Research upon the 
Phenomena of Attention.' Last summer I spent in 
Germany studying the language and endeavoring to 
learn those modes of living that are undoubtedly 
necessary to philosophic thinking." 

WILLIAM M. PREST, ESQ. 

Bill Prest has certainly seen more of the world than 
any of the rest of us ; but he had to come back to the 
Hub after all. He writes: "In the city of St. Louis 
stands a statue pointing westward and having the 
following inscription, 'This way lies the east!' 

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One month after the Amherst commencement of '88, 
I got a royal welcome in San Francisco from Bill 
Nourse, '87. August 21 the D. K. E. boys of the city 
gave me a banquet, and the next day the steamship 
Arabic carried me off to China. 

Without a comrade and on my first ocean voyage I 
felt perplexed, as the rakish ship svi^ung into the 
channel and moved out through the Golden Gate into 
the tremulous, dark waters of the Pacific. Over the 
southern course we bowled until one fine morning the 
Arabic hove to off Honolulu. Happy was the day 
I spent in that lovely island city. Unhappy was the 
night on ship-board, for four hundred Chinamen, 
gamblers and opium smokers, took passage for Hong 
Kong. On the gth of September, we passed through a 
terrible typhoon, but the next morning we landed safely 
in Yokohama. 

My letters of introduction from Naibu Kanda, 
Takasaki and Kabayama, all Amherst men, proved 
most valuable pass-words in Japan. It would be beside 
the mark for me to give any sketch of Japan in this class 
communication. The same remark would apply to the 
many countries and islands I visited, China, Ceylon, 
India, Egypt, Palestine, Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and the 
countries of Europe. I might say, in passing, that 
India and France proved especially interesting. I 
traveled westward for about a year and a half 
before reaching Boston, my starting point. 

I have been graduated from the Boston University 
Law School with the degree of LL. B.; admitted to the 
Suffolk bar of Boston ; and have received the degree 
of A. M. from Amherst college. My present office 
address is 62 Devonshire Street, Boston." 

REV. FRANK E. RAMSDELL. 

Ramsdell writes from Gardner, Mass.: "You ask 
for the record of the past five years, but a history of the 

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month of June covers all the important points. In June, 
1888, I graduated from Amherst with the gamest, ' 
jolliest, and most brilliant class Amherst ever had. 
In June, 1889, I married Miss Mary L. Smith, of 
Brockton. In June, 1891, I graduated from Andover, 
was one of the commencement speakers, was ordained to 
the ministry and installed as pastor of the First Congre- 
gational church of Gardner. In June, 1892, my son, 
Theodore, was born. The space between these points has 
been filled with the experiences of work and pleasure 
that make up the life of the ordinary mortal. Physically 
I am a solid man, having increased my weight thirty-five 
pounds since graduation. Mentally — erratic as of yore. 
Religiously — growing, and still unalterably opposed to 
compulsory chapel. Financially — improving slowly, 
very slowl5^ Politically — a Republican, somewhat 
shattered but as thoroughly convinced as ever that 
James G. Blaine was one of the ablest, most maligned, 
and most foully wronged men this country has produced. 
The present is busy and encouraging, the future offers a 
clear sky. As for the past it is filled with tender 
memories and beloved faces. If I were to go back nine 
years I would again enter Amherst in the class of '88, 
think more and talk less, play football, teach Davis 
by precept and example not to crib, enter the cane 
rushes I missed, cultivate physics, and smite any man 
that suggested that I run as candidate for Grove Orator 
against the witty, genial, elongated humorist of the blue 
grass state of Kentucky." 

CHARLES B. RAYMOND. 

Raymond has settled in business at Akron and 
writes: " After leaving college I entered, in the fall of 
'88, the employ of The Akron Woollen and Felt Com- 
pany of this city, serving as secretary for two 

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years. I was married, May 21, i8go, to Miss Mary 
Perkins, of this city. There was born to us on June 3, 
i8gi, a daughter, who is named Mary Perkins Raymond. 
In March, 1891, I resigned my position with the Akron 
Woollen and Felt Company to accept a position as corre- 
spondent with the Goodrich Hard Rubber Company, 
in which capacity I am still serving." 

He is interested also in the Burt Manufacturing 
Company, of the same city, manufacturers of the "'Yale 
automatic inkstand," etc. 

REV. LEONARD B. RICHARDS. 

Richards entered Union Theological Seminary in 
the fall of 1888. "Change of views under influence of 
historical and theological study led to confirmation, 
January 19, 1890, by Bishop Clark, of Rhode Island, in 
Calvary church, New York ; was admitted candidate for 
priest's orders in diocese of New York, February 15, 
i8go. In September, 1890, I entered the senior class in 
the Philadelphia Divinity School; graduated June, 1891. 
Was ordained deacon by Bishop Potter, May 24, 1891. 
Immediately after graduation at Philadelphia, I 
became rector's assistant in St. Mary's, Wayne, Pa., the 
Rev. Thos. K. Conrad, D. D., rector. I was ordained to 
the priesthood in St. Mary's, by Bishop Coleman, of 
Delaware, Saturday in Easter week, April 23, 1892; 
remained at Wayne until September 18, 1892. 
Early in September, '92, I received a call to the 
rectorship of the Church of St. Stephen, Tottenville, 
S. I., N. Y. ; accepted the call, and on the 27th of 
October took up my residence at Tottenville, my 
present address." 

Richards was married in New York City, June 14, 
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JAMES G. RIGGS. 

Riggs wrote in March from San Remo, Italy : 
"Replying to your letter relative to the class book, I 
may say that my brief career is as follows : 1888-89, vice- 
principal Union Academy, Belleville, N. Y. ; 1889-gi, 
principal of Yates Union School and Academy, 
Chittenango, N. Y.; 1891-92 principal high school, 
Watertown, N. Y. Finding my health likely to be 
impaired, I came abroad for rest and travel, but am 
hoping to spend some time at one of the German 
universities." 

He spent two months of the spring in London at the 
same place with Professor Genung, and in July returned 
to this country. He is now superintendent of schools at 
Plattsburgh, N. Y. 

ALBERT B. RIPLEY. 

"Rip" studied medicine for a couple of years at the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. At 
last accounts he was still in New York, but studying 
law. Nothing has been heard from him directly, but it 
is probably a case of inertia, as none of the letters sent 
have been returned. The latest address, for which we 
are indebted to the New York directory, is 612 Fifth 
Ave., N. Y. 

JOHN B. ROGERS. 

Rogers writes: "After graduating, my first step 
was to take a course at Eastman's Business College, 
Poughkeepsie, N. Y. I then came to California where I 
have since been engaged in teaching. Two years of 
this time I was in the University of the Pacific 
and the third has been spent near Marysville. I 
calculate to begin the study of medicine this summer 
and if nothing prevents shall graduate in three years." 

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ROBERT H. SESSIONS. 

Bob Sessions and Art Stearns represent Eighty- 
eight in Denver. The former writes: "After com- 
mencement in 1888, I took a summer's trip with 
Professor Richardson, Greenough '88 and Osborne '88, 
through Europe, visiting England, France, Germany 
and Italy. On our return I was for a short time at 
Minneapolis, Minn., and then went to Denver, Colo., in 
December, 1888. Till June, i88g, was in the real estate 
and loan business; I went east and September 4, i88g, 
was married in Youngstown, Ohio, to Miss Fanny L. 
Rice. From September, i88g, till April, 1890, we 
traveled in Europe and Egypt. In August, 1890, 
returned to Denver, where I have been ever since. 
In October, 1890, I took the position of treasurer with 
the Binford Coal Co., with whom I have been since. 
M)^ business address is No. 1616 Arapahoe St., and my 
house No. 1427 Gaylord St. No children." 

GEORGE N. SEYMOUR. 

"Sibi" writes from Elgin, Neb.: "In the month 
of July, '88, I went to Neligh, Nebraska, and took a 
position as kind of an outside rustler in a bank there, 
which I held down with as good grace as possible on a 
salary of twenty-five dollars per month, until November 
of the same year, at which time I was elected 
cashier of the Elgin state bank, of this place. I have 
held that position until the present time. In i88g, I 
became a stockholder in the bank and one of its 
directors, and in 1891, secured a controlling interest in 
it. Have been fairly prosperous in business and have 
become quite attached to my adopted home, and as 
I am pretty firmly planted here shall undoubtedly stay. 

I was married May 18, 1892. My wife's maiden 
name was Jessie L. Butler. We were married in 

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Meriden, Conn., my wife's home. We have an heir to 
our estate, Alma Brooks Seymour, born March 6, 1893. 
Honors! do you say? Well, the)'^ have never 
seemed to come my way. Of blessings, however, I 
have had an abundance, and of happiness a bountiful 
supply." 

CLIFTON L. SHERMAN. 

Sherman was engaged as news editor on the 
Springfield Union in September, 1888. He left the Union 
in January, 1890, to take a similar position on the 
Hartford Courant. He became managing editor of the 
latter paper in March, 1892. 

"I was married to Miss Edith Holton, of Brattle- 
boro, Vermont, April 25, 1889. We have one child, a 
girl, born March 14, 1890. Her name is Ellen." 

WALTER F. SKEELE. 

Skeele wrote from Chicago in March: "Soon after 
graduation I came to Chicago and commenced work as 
chemist in the oil refinery of B. V. Page & Co. In the 
spring of '89 I took a similar position in the metal manufac- 
turing house of E. W. Blatchford & Co. In March, '90, 
a much better position was offered me with the gas 
companies of the city and for three years I have been 
working for them as chemist. 

Three months after coming here I was fortunate 
enough to secure the position of organist in the First 
Congregational (Dr. Goodwin's) church. In June, '90, 
fortune again favored me and the position at Plymouth 
Congregational church was offered me. This I am still 
holding and through it I hope this year to see a great 
many '88 men who will be visiting the fair. Every- 
one goes to hear Dr. Gunsaulus, but not everyone stays 
to speak to the organist, as I hope all '88 men will do. 

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I was married February 4, 'gi, at Elgin, 111., to 
Miss Mary Bosworth, of that place. We are firm 
believers in co-education, for to a year's experience of 
that ideal system at Oberlin we owe our present felicity. 
I have enjoyed good health in general except for a 
tussle with malaria when I first came and a two months' 
siege of typhoid fever last summer." 

Since the above was written the illness of his wife 
has necessitated a change of climate for Skeele's family. 
He has gone west and become a quick convert to 
the silver heresy, if the following note, received in 
August is trustworthy : 

"We have been in Denver a month and its wonder- 
ful air has wrought such a beneficial change for my wife 
that we are confident of her early and complete recovery, 
though we probably cannot live in the east for some 
time. 

Yours for free silver and prosperity," 

Walter F. Skeele. 
john e. smith. 

Jack Smith writes: "I presume I might sit down 
and reel off a whole string of stuff about myself and 
doings since leaving the old town, and might by a 
careful use of the American tongue make it appear 
different from what it has been in truth, but outside of 
the accumulation of a most glorious pile of never ending 
experience, I stand to-day as when I left." 

WILLARD p. SMITH, ESQ. 

Smith 2nd writes: "I entered Columbia Law 
School in the fall of '88 and took the degree of LL. B. 
in '91. I was admitted to the practice of law in the 
courts of New York in February, 1890, and opened 
an office in New York City in the fall of 1891, but 
removed to Buffalo in June, 1892, where I am now 
located. 

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I traveled through the west during the summer 
of '88, spending most of the time in California arid 
returning through Oregon and Washington ; from there 
I came east via the Northern Pacific R. R. and the 
Yellowstone National Park. I traveled through Europe 
during the summer of '90, visiting France, Italy, 
Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland and England. 

I do not know the 'lady's maiden name' that you 
refer to in your letter." 

Those who were at the June re-union will be glad to 
know that the Queen City Bank has resumed operations. 
Bill's $2.50 is safe. 

ARTHUR F. STEARNS. 

Arthur writes: "After graduation I decided to try 
my fortune in business in the west and so set sail 
for Denver, a country supposed to be flowing not with 
'milk and honey,' but with gold, silver and 
opportunities for young men. It took me about 
twenty-four hours to get something to do for 
'a starter' and my first position was with the 
Atlas Lumber Company, one of the largest lumber 
companies in the west. After working for three months I 
was offered the managership of one of their yards in 
Nebraska. This offer I refused for I had been in Den- 
ver long enough to know it was a pretty good city to 'stay 
with.' Soon after this I entered the wholesale and retail 
stationery house of E. Besly & Co., and in one year was 
given entire charge of the wholesale department. I 
remained there for three years. I was continually 
looking forward to getting started for myself. 

February 15, 1892, a new firm started business in 
Denver under the firm name of Stickney & Stearns. Our 
business has been real estate, loans and fire insurance. 
We were appointed agents of the British America 



Assurance Co., of Toronto, May i, and have now 
"established a good business in the fire insurance line. 
Of late we have been giving more attention to loans and 
real estate and soon expect to bring this branch of the 
business to the front. 

I am not married although I have recently bought a 
nice little home." 

GEORGE p. STEELE. 

Steele writes from Painesville, his home since 
graduation, as before: "I rested and traveled for a 
year and then clerked in a bank till the new extradition 
treaty was executed with Canada ; then bought one-half 
interest in a plumbing and steam-heating concern and 
slaved two years; sold out and 'retired' and have been a 
gentleman of more or less elegant leisure since. 

I was married October 8, 1890, to Miss Grace B. 
Pierson, of Painesville, Ohio. We have had two children, 
John Worthington Steele, who was born July 21, 1891, 
and George Pierson Steele, who was born December 19, 
1892, and died March 8, 1893." 

CHARLES SULLIVAN, ESQ. 

After much correspondence and the return of several 
letters, Sullivan was at last unearthed in Chicago. He 
writes: "I have been in this city since the fall of '89. 
For the year 1889-90 I taught in the high school. I was 
admitted to the bar of this state at Springfield in the 
summer of '90 and have since been practising in Chicago. 
Have met with no great fortune or misfortune as yet; no 
marriage, no engagement, no degrees, but lots of hard 
work and small fees." 

GEORGE S. TENNEV. 

Tenney's first year after graduation was spent in the 
American Exchange National Bank, of New York. 

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Since then he has had a responsible position with C. H. 
Tenney & Company, commission hat merchants, 610-618 
Broadway, New York City. ''I am unmarried and have 
taken no active interest in anything outside of my 
particular line of business." 

GARRET W. THOMPSON. 

In the fall of '88, Thompson sailed for Berlin, where 
he spent three years as a student. He says: "There 
is no reason why one should lose interest in old 
Amherst even in the Fatherland, for she is well 
represented among the students of the universities and 
her alumni retain the same loyalty to her wherever they 
are found. 

While abroad I made a valuable addition to the 
'annex' by marrying Miss Emma Murray, a native 
of Cincinnati, who had spent ten years in France and 
Germany. Since my return I have taught very success- 
fully at Bridgeton, New Jersey, and in Philadelphia, 
where I am residing. I am connected with a very fine 
fitting school and am pleasantly situated in a musical 
way. My A. B. has suffered metamorphosis into A. M. 
with no other damaging result than perhaps a slight 
capital enlargement. I follow with unwaning interest 
the fortunes of my classmates and shall await the receipt 
of the class book with pleasure." 

EDWARD B. VAILL, ESQ. 

Vaill was in business in New York City for a year 
after graduation. He then went to Pittsburgh and 
began the study of law with his uncle, E. P. Breck, Esq. 
Since his admission to the bar in September, 1891, he 
has been practising in that city. He writes: "1 am, to the 
best of my knowledge and belief, a single man, with no 
intention either immediate or remote, of throwing away 
my chances for 'life, liberty and the pursuit of 
happiness' by marriage." 



REV. CLYDE W. VOTAW. 

In acquisition of membership in learned societies 
blessed with long names, Votaw certainly leads the 
class. He undoubtedly deserves all these honors. From 
many members of Eighty-eight and other associates 
at Yale come enthusiastic reports of his work in his 
chosen line. He writes: "Graduation found me in 
perplexity as to what work I should take up. I 
inclined to journalism, but after seeing it as it was 
in Boston and elsewhere, I did not care so much 
about it. Teaching languages or literature then 
appealed to me, but I had no good opportunity 
until I had decided on something else. I entered 
Yale Divinity School in the fall of '88, with many 
Amherst classmates and alumni. I completed the 
three years' course without intermission, taking the 
degree of B. D. in '91. One summer I established a 
young church in a Minneapolis suburb, which is to-day 
flourishing finely, and a joy to me. I began vigorous 
scientific Bible teaching in New Haven, Dwight Place 
church, and was made New Testament lecturer at the 
N. E. Chautauqua, summer of '8g, which position I still 
hold. In the summer of '90, I taught N. T. language 
and literature at a summer school in Cambridge, Mass. 
In the summer of '91, I was a N. T. lecturer in the N. 
Y. Chautauqua, and still retain that appointment. 

A little before graduation at Yale I was diverted 
from my anticipated pastoral career by the request 
of Dr. W. R. Harper that I should become instructor in 
Greek in the American Institute of Sacred Literature, 
which I accepted. During the spring of '91 I was 
engaged for some months in the preparation of the 
Blakeslee system of Sunday School Lessons. During 
the year '91 -'92 I carried on the Greek correspondence 
department of the A. I. S. L., was assistant editor of 



the Old and New Testament Student, and prepared the 
first half of a scientific course of Studies on the Founding of 
the Christian Church. This course I am now at work 
upon, and shall complete this year ; it is issued by the 
Student Publishing Co., Hartford, Conn. In '92 I 
received the degree of A. M. from Amherst. 

At the opening of the University of Chicago, in 
October, '92, I was made docent in Biblical literature, 
offering elective courses in New Testament language and 
literature ; also reader in New Testament literature, and 
lecturer in the University extension. In '93 I was 
elected to membership in the American Society of 
Church History, the Chicago Society of Biblical 
Research, and the Advisory Council of Religious 
Congresses for the World's Columbian Exposition. 

I was married last Thanksgiving ('92) to Miss Cora 
Collins Whitmore, of Sycamore, 111., a graduate of the 
School of Elocution of the Northwestern University. 
Even if encomiums upon the joy and peace of matri- 
mony were in order here, I am at a loss for any that 
would be adequate to express the facts. And so I 
acknowledge myself a convert to the Whiting doctrine. 

It would be a great pleasure to me if you would, in 
passing through Chicago at any time, take pains to see 
the new university, and incidentally exchange greetings 
with myself." 

EDWARD H. WALDO. 

Waldo writes: ''In the fall of 1888 I entered 
Cornell in the electrical engineering course, from which 
I graduated with an M. E. in June, 1890. The summer 
of 1889 I spent wiring at Amherst. September 15, i8go, 
I entered the Thomson-Houston factory at Lynn, 
Mass., in the 'Student course.' From that time until 
the end of '92 I was connected with that company (it 



became the General Electric Company after the consoli- 
dation with the Edison in April, 1892,) at the factory 
learning the business ; as expert ; drafting ; and in 
outside construction and repair work. August and 
September of 1891 I spent in Montreal, being one 
of a number setting up and operating the exhibit of the 
Thomson-Houston Company at the electrical exhibition 
there. From the middle of March to the middle of 
July, I spent in putting in a small electrical mining plant 
in Alamo, Lower California, Mexico, and in the trip there 
and back. Since the first of the year I have been 
in New York as superintendent of the General Electric 
Company's repair shop at 24 West Street, New York 
City, which is my present address." 

Cards were recently received announcing Waldo's 
marriage to Miss Mina K. Stockbridge, daughter of S. L. 
Stockbridge, of Amherst. The ceremony took place 
August 15, 1893, at Amherst. 

SAMUEL D. WARRINER. 

For two years Sam Warriner was the star athlete at 
Lehigh. His report is: "From September, 1888, to 
June, 1890, I was at Lehigh University, South Beth- 
leham, Pa., engaged in studying mining engineering. 
Graduated in June, 1890, with the degrees of B. S. and E. 
M. (engineer of mines). During the two years was on 
the university base ball nine, and university foot ball 
eleven, one year as captain. From June, 1890, to 
October, 1890, I was connected with the Liberty Iron 
Company, of Liberty Furnace, Virginia, as mining 
engineer; from October, 1890, to October, i8gi, with the 
Lehigh Valley Coal Co., with headquarters at Wilkes- 
barre, as assistant engineer. Since October, 1891, I 
have been with the same company as chief mechanical 
engineer. I am neither married nor engaged." 

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REV. ELBRIDGE C. WHITING. 

Whiting writes: "These five years have been full, 
profitable and pleasant, and I trust all have found them 
of that same character. 

The first part of the summer of '88, I attended the 
summer school at Amherst and in September of the 
same year, entered Yale Divinity School. It was a 
continuation of Amherst life with still higher aims and 
nobler purposes. The first year I roomed with our 
beloved Brooks, and my acquaintance with him only 
served to strengthen my love and respect for him. We 
went west together in May and separated at Chicago, he 
to go to Colorado and I to North Dakota. When I 
returned to Yale in the fall, I heard that he had died on 
his way home. It was a sad loss to the class of '88. 

My first summer vacation was spent in doing 
missionary work in Caledonia, North Dakota. The 
second summer was filled in like manner in the moun- 
tains of Maine, in the little town of Albany. Of the two 
experiences, give me the first on the prairies of North 
Dakota. I graduated from Yale, May 17, '91, and was mar- 
ried June 4, of the same year, in Castine, Maine, to Miss 
Louise D. Adams, Goodrich being best man, and E. L. 
Marsh and Votaw ushers. Their presence added grace 
and harmony to the occasion. Mrs. Whiting and I 
settled over a church in Springfield, Mass. Here we 
met many old Amherst friends, who made short calls on 
us in our home. 

In November, '92, I received a unanimous call to 
the Fifth Avenue Congregational church of Minneapolis, 
and after looking over the field decided to accept. We 
find an unusually good church and a very fine class 
of people to work with. February 16, 1893, a little girl, 
Louise Adams Whiting, was born into our home. She 

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is one of the finest specimens of babyhood that fond 
parents ever looked upon. 

My five years have been years of preparation. I 
feel as though I was just entering upon my life's work. 
No great successes, no great disappointments to record. 
My best wishes to all the members of our class." 

CHARLES B. WILBAR. 

Wilbar gave good account of himself at Amherst in 
June, but has sent none for the book. He has been 
in business in Boston during the five years, most of the 
time on State St. He held a position with A. B. Turner 
& Bro. until that firm assigned in 1892. He has since 
continued in the same line of business with Barnes 
& Cunningham, bankers and brokers, 53 State St., 
Boston. Taunton is still his home address. 

HENRY L. WILKINSON. 

"Wilkey" writes: "After leaving college I at once 
took a position in the People's Savings Bank, of Provi- 
dence. I remained for about a year, when I left to take 
a better position in the American National Bank, oi 
Providence, where for a year and a half I filled the book- 
keeper's position and only gave it up to accept the 
appointment of assistant national bank examiner with 
Connecticut and Rhode Island for a district. This 
place I held till December 26, 1892, when I decided to 
accept a position with Messrs. Harvey Fisk & Sons, 
bond dealers, 28 Nassau St., New York City. I am still 
unmarried and with no immmediate prospect of leaving 
the single state, though if fortune should suddenly favor 
me financially, I think I might find someone to share it 
with me." 

REV. HERBERT P. WOODIN. 

Woodin writes: "In the summers of '88, '89 and 
'90, I taught mathematics in the Amherst summer 

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school. The first two years after graduation were spent 
teaching mathematics in St. John's school, Sing Sing, 
N. Y. During August and the first two weeks of 
September, '90, I had charge, in the absence of the 
pastor, of Christ Chapel, West 66th St., New York City. 
That fall I entered the class of '93 at Yale Divinity 
School and graduated last May. In May, '91, I went to 
Curtisville, Mass., among the Berkshire hills, and have 
had charge of the Congregational church there ever 
since. It is a small but loyal church of sixty-five 
resident members. In June, '92, I was ordained there by 
the South Berkshire conference. For the future I have 
laid my plans to go west into home missionary work, 
either in Kansas or in California. I expect to start 
west by the first of September, '93. I am still single and 
likely to be for the present." 

JOHN D. WRIGHT. 

Jack Wright has the last word : "For the first two 
years after graduation I was the private tutor of a young 
man in Pittsburgh, Pa., and during that time I spent 
about five months in Europe. I then accepted the 
position of electrician's assistant in the United Electric 
Traction Company, which I retained until their failure in 
the spring of i8gi. I then went with the firm of Lloyd 
& Paxton, Limited, manufacturers of storage batteries, 
and electrical engineers, but they were soon forced 
to discontinue their business by litigation, which is still 
in progress. For some months following I was with the 
Singer Manufacturing Co., in their New York office, and 
then accepted a position of teacher in the New York 
school for the instruction of deaf children by the oral 
method ; a work with which I was slightly familiar and 

which I find exceedingly interesting. 

I think that is all — Oh no! — I am not married." 

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RECORD OF NON-GRADUATES. 

ADDISON ALLEN, ESQ. 

Ad. Allen entered the Columbia Law School after 
leaving Amherst, graduating therefrom in 1889. He was 
admitted to the bar in New York, and is now in practice 
there with an office in the Equitable Building. At last 
accounts he was not married. 

JOHN N. BLAIR, ESQ. 

Blair went from Amherst to the University of 
Michigan, graduating in '88. He writes from New 
York: "I have joined the Amherst Young Alumni 
Association and see a good deal of the boys in con- 
sequence, so I feel my Amherst interest as strong as 
ever. My personal history my be briefly told. I have 
taken no degree save B. A., having left Columbia Law 
School and taken a tutor to facilitate progress in law 
studies. I was admitted to practice in '91 and have been 
at it ever since ; am now a partner in the firm of Blair 
& Rudd, 102 Broadway, New York City. Am not 
married." 

REV. CHARLES CROMBIE BRUCE. 

The following was clipped from the Boston Herald, 
of July 30, 1893. The accompanying cut identified it— by 
contrast— as referring to the whilom student with '88. Its 
interest for all warrants verbatim publication : 

"Happiness is so fragile that one risks the loss of it 
by talking of it. It flies from him who deliberately pur- 
sues it, and shuns the hand that would sieze upon it. 
Yet much unhappiness may be avoided by keeping well. 

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To the steady brain worker (and all are brain 
workers) it is important to be able to perceive the 
indications of the coming storm. Rev. Charles C. 
Bruce, the well known pastor, of Somerville, Mass., 
preaches a very practical sermon to those who, from 
sickness, are unhappy. He was sick. He took Paine's 
celery compound, the wonderful remedy that makes 
people well. He is now on the royal road to health and 
long life. His own words are ; * * * * 

'I was born in Peterboro, N. H., and lived there 
until I was i6 years old. My father, who is a very noble 
man, sent me to the Appleton academy for three years, 
then he told me 'if you want any more education you 
must get it.' So when I was i6 I went to Amherst 
college and earned every cent that paid my bills there 
for four years and graduated. Then I was persuaded 
to go to Andover seminary, and studied there three 
years, and took my degree as a clergyman in 1878, and 
went to preaching. I preached 11 or 12 years and then 
went back to college and studied two years for the Ph. 
D. degree. 

' All these two years I was studying and supporting 
my family. This, as you will easily imagine, was 
excessive labor. At length I was elected to a position 
in a high school in Boston, but the work told on me and 
I grew ill. The illness lasted for about a year and 
a half. But now I am so that I can see the end, and a 
more thankful man you never saw. A gentleman who 
lived near me began to use Paine's celery compound and 
it built him up. I thought of this and soon was led to 
use it, and it has been bringing me out all right. I 
am inclined to think that I will soon be herculean 
in strength." ****** 

(History seems to make no further record of the 
Ph. D. degree.) 

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DR. ERNEST G. CARLETON. 

"Stub" Carleton was obliged by ill-health to miss a 
year, but graduated with the class of '8g. He is now in 
New York City and writes : "I spent three years in the 
College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating in 1892. 
I immediately began a service on the New York Lying- 
in-Hospital staff and finished January i, 1893. I am 
now at Gouverneur Hospital and shall finish the service 
here January i, 1894. I am undecided as to the shingle- 
hanging, but you know that all young physicians are in 
the same chronic condition." 

WILLIAM ESTY. 

Billy Esty spent some time in electrical study at the 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, after his gradua- 
tion from Amherst in '89. He has since been with the 
General Electric Company at Lynn. Amherst gave him 
an A. M. in 1893. His engagement to a young lady 
from Little Rock, Ark., was announced more than a 
year ago. 

HENRY S. FISH. 

"Coddy" left college at the end of the sophomore 
year and has been at work in Boston in the clothing 
business ever since. He has been steadily successful 
and now holds a good position as traveler for Cushing, 
Olmsted & Snow, wholesale merchants, 74 Summer St., 
Boston. Most of his time is spent in New England but 
he takes one trip each year as far as Nebraska. He has 
been with the same firm from the start. 

HOMER GARD. 

Gard left college in the spring of '87 and has since 
been engaged in newspaper work. Until August, 1891, 
he was a reporter on the "News" at Hamilton, O. From 
that to the present time he has been connected with the 

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Hamilton "Democrat," of which he has been managing 
editor since January, 1892. June i, 1892, he was 
married to Miss Lutie E. Matthias, of Hamilton. 

DR. EDWIN P. GLEASON. 

Gleason writes: "After leaving Amherst I entered 
the Harvard Medical School and in the course of time 
received my diploma. I practised for about a year and 
a half in Cambridge, Mass., then removed to Maynard, 
where I am now settled. I am a member of the Massa- 
chusetts Medical Society, last year was town physician 
and this year am a member of the Board of Health. I 
have dabbled a little with pen and ink ; a few of my 
efforts, mostly stories, have been printed, by far the 
larger number have been 'returned with thanks.' I am 
still a happy bachelor." 

ALBERT P. GOODWIN. 

Al Goodwin went to Minneapolis in the fall of 1888 
and was employed in the public library there until his 
health failed. He then returned to Chicago. In 1890 
he was with the Walter Hill Company, furniture 
dealers, at 218 Wabash Avenue. On their failure in 
1891, he returned to Minneapolis and was for some 
months engaged in the manufacture of surgical appli- 
ances. Since the fall of '91 he has been with the 
western agency of the Fidelity Mutual Life Insurance 
Company, 115 Dearborn St., Chicago. His home 
address is 354 Washington Boulevard. 

HAROLD RUSSELL GRIFFITH, ESQ. 

Griffith graduated from Yale in '88. He was a 
member of Scroll and Keys Senior Society and one 
of the "Lit." editors for his class. After graduation he 
was for some time occupied with literary work in New; 



York City. Later he studied law, and is now practising. 
His office is in the Mutual Life Building, Nassau St. 

JOHN HAYNKS. 

Haynes writes: "I am glad to be counted as an 
Amherst man (this is said without any reflection on 
Williams) as far as my brief sojourn there justifies. 
Since leaving Amherst I have been blessed in many 
ways but not much in the way of 'degrees, honors, 
or children.' Entering Williams college in the class of 
'88 at the beginning of the winter term of the sophomore 
year, I continued my course and graduated the same 
day as my friends at Amherst. I have never received a 
degree since. 

I have been successively principal of the high 
schools at East Hartford, Conn, and Holbrook, Mass., 
and of the academy at Wethersfield, Conn. The last 
position I resigned to enter Johns Hopkins University 
in the fall of '92. I am still pursuing there a course of 
study in economics and history." 

REV. ARTHUR M. LITTLE. 

Little spent the year 1887-8 studying at Leipsic. 
He entered the senior class at Yale in the fall of '88, 
taking at the same time courses in the Divinity School, 
so that he received his B. D. in 1891. He was one 
of the commencement speakers at the Divinity School 
and took a very high stand in the academic class of '89. 

In June, 1891, he was married at Washington, 
D. C, to Miss Marion P. Keene. He went abroad 
once more, residing and studying at Leipsic. On his 
return he was called to take charge of a Presbyterian 
church in West Superior, Wis., but declined. After 
settling at Takoma Park, D. C, he was again called to 
the leading Congregational church in West Superior, 
but decided to remain in the east. 



GEORGE A. MERRITT. 

Merritt still greets the boys at the delivery window 
of the post office when they return to Amherst. He has 
been in the office since leaving college in the spring of 
the first year — since April, i88g, as assistant post master. 
He was married August 19, 1890, to Miss Cora B. 
Merritt, of Hinsdale, N. H. 

REV. GEO. H. NEWMAN. 

Newman writes: "It was a most bitter disappoint- 
ment when poor health caused me to leave Amherst. 
And the same difficulty has interfered with my work 
ever since." He became pastor of the First Baptist 
church, Bois^ City, Idaho, in November, 1885, and in 1886 
was chaplain of the state legislature. In 1888 he 
returned to New York and became pastor at North 
Elmira, N. Y. In May, '91, he took charge of the 
Baptist church at Colfax, Washington, where he is still. 
"The most important work I have done, perhaps, is the 
redeeming Colfax college, which had been sold under a 
foreclosure of mortgage. In '92 and '93 I spent over a 
year, without salary, raising money, gathering claims 
donated, and settling the indebtedness of the institution. 
The total liabilities amounted to over thirteen thousand 
dollars. Colfax college is a Baptist school located at 
Colfax, Washington, the county seat of Whitman 
County." 

February 2, 1887, he was married to Miss Frances 
A. Clark, of Monticello, Iowa. They have two children, 
George Clark, born March i, 1888, and Roberta Lee, 
born July 16, 1891. 

CHARLES B. NIBLOCK. 

"Niblock, to the best of my recollection, entered 
college in 1887, took a number of courses in the class of 
'88, joined D. K. E., sold Prex. Seelye an unsound black 



horse, and went back to Chicago, where he had an 
interest in an Indiana coal company." 

ALBERT H. PLUMB, JR. 

Plumb writes: "In sophomore year my health 
failed, and I withdrew, not thinking to return. But after 
a short stay in the Carolina hills and a little business 
experience in Boston, I found I could return to Amherst, 
which I did, graduating in the otherwise illustrious 
class of 'gi. Since then I have been interested in 
Biblical philology, spending a year in the study of 
Hebrew and Greek at Hartford Theological Seminary, 
and passing the season of '92-3 at home with a Jew as 
tutor in Arabic. I contemplate further study this year 
in London. My address after August will be 15 Oakley 
Road, London, N." 

GEORGE H. ROGERS. 

Rogers graduated in the class of '90 and afterwards 
spent a year or two in Chicago. His last known 
address is Holbrook, Mass. 

REV. HARRY ELMER SMALL. 

Small left college in the spring of i88g on account 
of ill health. In the fall of that year he taught school in 
Marshfield, Me., then went to Colorado, where he spent 
thirteen months, five of them on a sheep ranch. In the 
fall of '87 he entered Washburn college, Kas., but 
returned to Amherst the next year and graduated in 
1890. His summers were spent in home missionary 
work, chiefly in Maine. He received the degree of 
B. D. at Yale, in the class of 1893. Having been 
called before graduation to the Congregational church 
at North Guilford, Conn., he was ordained there June 
20, 1893. He expects to remain there and take post- 
graduate work at Yale during the present year. 

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ALBERT D. TILLERY. 

Tillery is married, and is said to be teaching school 
in Nebraska; address unknown. 

PORTER TRACY. 

As expected, nothing has been received from Tracy 
directly. One of the New York classmates says: "I 
saw Pat Tracy some two years ago in the Fifth Avenue 
Hotel, with the same hat on, apparently, that he wore in 
college." From another we learn that Porter is at 
present in New Orleans, doing work in taxidermy. 

REV. WILLIAM F. WHITE. 

White writes: ''My preparation for college was 
made under rare difficulties in a little country academy 
in my native village, Rensselaerville, N. Y. There my 
physician told me that I had overdone and that I must 
rest three years. Being naturally strong I so far 
recovered as to think myself able, after a year's rest, to 
enter college which I did only to learn in a few months 
my mistake. Old troubles were returning, making good 
work impossible and showing an early departure neces- 
sary. I left with a sudden but hearty farewell from the 
fellows that I can never forget. 

June 3, 1885, I was married in Ware, Mass., 
to Miss Bessie Eaton, a classmate and a daughter 
of an Amherst man, Benjamin F. Eaton, a former 
principal of the school in which I prepared for college. 
For a brief season we resided at my old home. Subse- 
quently we moved to Ware, Mass., and there, while 
still much in doubt as to what I ought to do, I entered 
the employ of the Otis Company, with a view to learn- 
ing manufacturing. But a year and a half of that most 
valuable experience only showed me that I had not 
yet found my calling. At the advice of my pastor, 

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I applied for entrance to the Hartford Theological 
Seminary in the class of '90, and was received and 
duly graduated in the regular course. While there I 
had the pleasure of meeting many Amherst men. 
A few months after my graduation, I accepted a call 
to the Congregational church of Trumbull, Conn., 
where I have been three years. With regard to my 
chosen calling I have no need to express myself further 
than to say that I am very grateful to that mysterious 
Providence that has guided me thus far. At the close 
of my seminary course, I was called to the church in 
North Amherst, but it seemed unwise at that time that 
I should accept. 

Two children have come to brighten our home : 
Eloise Hamilton White, born at Ware Mass., April 22, 
1886, and Emmons Eaton White, born at Trumbull, 
Conn., April 4, i8gi. 




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OBITUARY RECORD. 

SAMUEL CONY BROOKS, 

"S. C. Brooks, son of Samuel S. and Mar}^ C. (Wads- 
worth) Brooks, was born in Augusta, Me., February 17, 
1866, and was fitted for college at the high school in his 
native city. After graduation he was a member of 
Yale Divinity School one year. Three months of 
the summer vacation in 1889 he spent in the employ 
of the Massachusetts Sabbath School and Publish- 
ing Society, in establishing Sabbath Schools and 
in preaching, in Colorado, with his headquarters at 
Chivington. While en route eastward, he was attacked 
with typhoid fever, brought on by overwork and expo- 
sure, and died at the home of his classmate, Mr. G. N. 
Seymour, in Elgin, Neb., September 5, 1889." The 
accompanying resolutions were passed by the class : 

Since it has seemed good to our Heavenly Father to 
take from us our dear friend and classmate, Samuel 
Cony Brooks, We, the class of Eighty-eight, desire 
to express our appreciation of his many enduring qual- 
ities, his manly Christian character, and his unselfish 
devotion to the work for which he was preparing. 

While we meet his loss with deep and heartfelt 
grief, we recognize how much greater must be the 
sorrow of those to whom he was bound by even closer 
ties than those of friendship, and would extend our most 
warm and tender sympathy to his parents and those 
upon whom this sad affliction falls most heavily. 

We feel that his life, though short, was not in vain 
and trust that we may be better, nobler men for having 
known our friend. 

F. L. Garfield, 
E. L. Marsh, 
L. B. Goodrich,' 

For the Class. 
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ALLEN WOODBURY PARSONS. 

"A. W. Parsons, son of Jonathan and Mary (Colt) 
Parsons, was born in Kalamazoo, Mich., November 
23, 1864, and was fitted for college at the high 
school in his native place and at the preparatory 
department of Kalamazoo College. ' After graduation 
he worked his way through the several departments 
of paper manufacturing in Plolyoke, Mass. In two 
years he acquired a thorough knowledge of the practical 
details of the business and entered the employ of Carter, 
Rice & Co., Boston. An accident in Boston in i8go 
left a spinal injury that afterwards caused much suffer- 
ing. In the fall of 1891 his physicians advised a milder 
climate, and he spent the winter in Denver, Colo., but 
summoned home by the death of his father, he was 
afterwards unable to engage in any active pursuit. The 
last winter was spent in Florida, but change of climate 
could not more than delay the issue of the disease.' 
He died of consumption, at Kalamazoo, June i, 1893." 
He had formed large plans and had undertaken them 
manfully after leaving college, but the brave cheerfulness 
with which he resigned them for a burden of pain gave 
the friends who saw him in those last months new 
appreciation of his quiet, courageous manliness. The 
following resolutions were adopted by the class : 

We, the class of 1888 of Amherst College, mourn 
the loss of our classmate, Allen W. Parsons, and wish 
hereby to express our grief at the untimely ending of a 
career that promised such usefulness to the world and 
our gratefulness for the association with so lovable a 
character during four bright years of youth. In all our 
class relations we ever found in him a sympathetic 
heart and ready hand. In him were joined a capacity 
for making friends and a hearty geniality of manner in 
expressing his friendship. While with us we loved him ; 
his career since our separation we have regarded with 
interest and at his death we were startled and grieved. 

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To his family we extend our sincere sympathy in the 
loss which they and we jointly sustain. 

John H. Miller, 
John D. Wright, 
Chas. H. Edwards, 

Committee fo?- the Class. 



PIERREPONT ISHAM PRENTICE. 

Pierrepont Isham Prentice, of Chicago, left college 
at the end of the second year, and died January 4, 1890. 
At the time of his death, which resulted from typhoid 
fever, he was surgeon of the Minnesota Iron Company, 
at Soudan, Minn. 




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FIN DE SIECLE. 

Julia Heaton Austin - - - Dec. i, 1891 

Walton Chamberlain Baker - July 24, 1893 

Earl Ellingwood Bunten (class boy) - Aug. 3, 1890 
Louise Chapman - - - Feb. 15, 1892 

Millicent Clark - - - - Aug. 25, 1893 

Cornwell - - - April 17, 1892 

Donald Horace Dickerman - - Jan. 22, 1893 

Marion Gage - - - Nov. 4, 1889 

Roland D. Gage - - - Mar. 5, 1891 

Horace N. Gage - - - Nov. 15, 1892 

Arthur Prentice Goodwin - - Aug. 14, 1892 

Ellery Channing Huntington, Jr. - Mar. 11, 1893 

Hulda G. Jacobs - - - Sept. 12, 1892 

Jewett - - - Nov. 1892 

Kenneth McLennan - - - Sept. 8, 1892 

Helen Agnes Marshall - - July 29, 1892 

Theodore Ramsdell - - - June, 1892 

Mary Perkins Raymond - - June 3, 1891 

Alma Brooks Seymour - - - Mar. 6, 1893 

Ellen Sherman - - - Mar. 14, 1890 

John Worthington Steele - - July 21, 1891 

*George Pierson Steele - - March 8, 1893 

Louise Adams Whiting - - Feb. 16, 1893 

10 girls; 13 boys; *deceased. 



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STATISTICS. 



OCCUPATIONS. 



In Business - - - - 27 
Bankers or Brokers 7 
Manufacturers 4 
Miscellaneous 16 

Teachers - - - - 17 

Clergymen - - - - 12 

Lawyers - - - -12 

Physicians - - - - 7 

Journalists - - - 2 

Foreign Missionaries - - 2 

Medical Missionary - - i 

Mining Engineer - - - i 

Consulting Chemist - - i 

Students - - - - 7 

Of Theology 5 

Of Law I 

Of Philosophy i 

Married - - - - 37 

Deceased - - - - 2 

Class Children - - - 23 

non-graduates — summary. 

In Business or Unknown - - 14 

Teachers - . - - 2 

Clergymen - - - - 5 

Lawyers - . . - 3 

Physicians - - - - 3 

Journalist . . _ i 

Students - - - - 2 

Married - . - - 6 

Deceased - - - - " i 



GENERAL INDEX. 



PAGE 

Class Register - - - - 5 

Class Officers - - - - 10 

Class Day Parts - - - -11-50 

Ivy Oration, S. D. Warriner - - 13 

Ivy Ode, J. A. Fairley - - - i? 

Class Oration, Charles Sullivan - 18 

Class Poem, S. O. Hartwell - - 24 

Grove Oration, J. H. Miller - - 31 

Grove Poem, A. S. Bard - - - 40 

Class Ode, James Ewing - - 50 

The Five Years . . . . 51-120 

Re-union Song - - - - 53 

Introductory - - - - 54 

Record of Graduates - - - 56 

Record of Non-Graduates - - - 107 

Obituary Record - - - 116 

Fin de Siecle - - - - 119 

Statistics - - - - 120 



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